Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...highest estimates, the Germans had consigned some 200,000 men in 18 divisions to Italy. The bulk of these were probably in the north, under the command of that master of delay, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. His first task: to preserve from Italian sabotage and Allied air attack the three railway, routes into upper Italy from Austria and Yugoslavia, the interior railways, roads and airdromes without which the German armies could not long be supported. Rommel's eventual task: to hold the mountains and passes of northern Italy against Allied armies at these gates to the Reich...
...adoption of the Constitution the states (or, technically, their citizens) gave up the bulk of their sovereignty; they agreed to share with the national government some of their most vital powers and to endow it exclusively with others. Even so, it took a bloody Civil War-a type of threat to future world peace too often overlooked by planners of world governments-to convince some of the states that the nation was more sovereign than they...
Though in the past eight weeks the Red Army has recaptured countless acres of rich wheatland, its bulk still remains in enemy hands. Not until 1944, and perhaps later, will the little man's dinner pail be well filled...
...midmorning the U.S. Seventh and the British Eighth Armies had entered Messina in force. Then from the pine-covered hills on the Italian mainland, three and a half miles across the Strait, German big guns lobbed over their shells. Quickly the bulk of the Allied troops withdrew from the city...
...over Europe a great battle is nearing its climax. The combined forces of the R.A.F. and the U.S. Eighth Air Force are in head-on collision with the bulk of Germany's fighter-plane strength. The issue may be decided in the next month. On it may depend: 1) success or failure of an Allied invasion; 2) the answer to the question: Can Germany be bombed...