Word: breton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Omar Bradley got his good weather on July 25 and touched off his rocket. It swooshed through the chute, burst out of Normandy, burned a path to Avranches and the north corner of the Breton peninsula...
...Sweeps that shot across the 100-mile base of Brittany to the Bay of Biscay in four days; a 138-mile thrust westward that reached into the tip of the Breton peninsula. Brittany was cut off, then cut in two from...
...Channel was kinder now. The crosscurrents and races of this turbulent moat are never still, but the long winter storms were over. The fresh wind still snatched spindrift from the whitecaps in the narrows opposite Dover, as it did beyond in the North Sea, and around Cape Breton in the rough Bay of Biscay. But in the fjords, in the bays and river mouths, the way was smoother. Along the flat sand beaches and the rocky cliffs, around the peninsulas, along the marshes and the dikes the invasion season had begun...
Manhattan's Madison Avenue & 51st Street, another surrealist exhibition was" last week attracting crowds. Organized by Pioneer Surrealist Andre Breton for the benefit of French prisoners of war, it also had a striking installation: a cat's cradle consisting of miles of string woven all through one exhibition room. As an added attraction a number of schoolboys were employed to play catch with footballs over the labyrinth...
...invasion coast, from the Hook of Holland to the Breton Peninsula, hums and crackles like a great anthill with the Germans' building and rebuilding. Workmen, slave and free, throw up great strong points of concrete and steel. The spirit of the great Fritz Todt, who built the wondrously interlaced strong points in the unused Westwall, lies over the oppressed land. German gunners stand at their stations in fortress and foxhole, ready to spin the threads of their fire into the tightly woven fabric of resistance to invasion. British bombers and fighters pluck the threads and blast the weavers, whipping...