Word: breakthroughs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They got their chance; the 82nd was too spent to exploit its breakthrough. So while one regiment of the 9th pushed west from Néhou, through St.-Jacques, another regiment passed the tired 82nd, pushed through St.-Sauveur in a parallel thrust. The enemy's 77th Division put up a bitter rear-guard fight, was savagely cut up and broken; those who could, escaped -but the wrong way, to the north...
...finally had satisfactory statistical evidence of a bull market. Since last July, when the market stumbled after a long rise, Dow theorists have anxiously waited for the market to "prove itself," i.e., break through the July peak, or slump into a full grown bear market. Last week's breakthrough supplied the bullish proof...
...Kesselring's two armies will never fight again." It was about all he had time to say. He was in charge of the pursuit north from Rome. On his right, British General Sir Oliver Leese pressed forward with his polyglot Eighth. He, too, was trying for the great breakthrough, the disorganization that can be brought even to the best of troops...
Objective? Berlin glumly guessed that the Nevel force aimed at a breakthrough to the Baltic Sea, thus cutting off the German troops in the north. Moscow confirmed these fears by designating the force as the First Baltic Army. But it seemed obvious that before striking west, this powerful army would have to crush the enemy's stronghold at Vitebsk...
...Farther north, powerful Russian columns inched closer to the German strongholds at Kiev, Gomel, Vitebsk. German defenses forbade a quick breakthrough. But the steady punching kept the worried German command from shifting its troops from these threatened cities to the crumbling line in the south...