Word: breather
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Animal. Rommel, having earned a breather on the central front, had to turn south toward the so-called Mareth Line, where pillbox fortifications, barbedwire entanglements, gun emplacements and land mines are sprinkled thickly through the Matmata Mountains. Only ten miles away was the Afrika Korps's old enemy, General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery, gazing up at the 2,000-ft. heights of the range, patiently waiting the day when stores, ammunition, artillery, men were all accumulated to his taste and he was ready to make his massive assault. Already assembled were probably 100,000 fresh reserves and veterans...
Again war secrecy blotted the President out of sight. His brief emergence to greet Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands had been only a breather...
There were signs that the U-boat packs were veering southward to seas teeming with shipping to Africa (see p. 25). Brazil reported a Nazi surface raider off South America and London forecast an immediate increase in submarine attacks in the South Atlantic. The U.S. had a breather in the war against the submarines. It could not yet hail victory...
...naval officer, taking a breather in Cairo last week, perspired comfortably and wished that the Italians could see what had happened at the Red Sea port of Massaua...
Needless of the Crimson Varsity's 19-day breather, the Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League whirls on to the completion of its 1942 campaign. Not until May 9, when it meets Columbia on Soldiers Field, will the Harvard nine have another lick at Ivy circuit competition...