Word: break-through
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...been given clothes. They had been naked since they had crossed the Ebro River at daylight. The Ebro, they said, was a fast-flowing, very cold river, and six others who had tried to swim it, four of whom were wounded, drowned. . . . We listened to their story of their break-through after the battalion had been surrounded...
...Germans. There, in 47 days of storming into the face of the Hindenburg Line about 123,000 Americans were killed or wounded. Some 900,000 others, nearly as many as the Confederacy mustered in four years, came through unscathed to live to tell the tale of the final break-through to Sedan and draw their bonuses...
...guns and high explosives, objecting to them obstinately on the grounds of unnecessary expense. An almost speaking photograph shows "Papa" Joffre and Haig behind the lines at the Battle of the Somme, excitedly pointing out to Lloyd George, who stares at them skeptically, that as soon as the imminent break-through is made, their massed cavalry will charge and demolish the Germans. One of the many muddies Lloyd George reveals is that as late as 1915 the Allies were bidding up the price of T.N.T. in the U. S. market by competitive purchases. He throws fresh light on British foreign...