Word: crush
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from Moscow to Stalingrad, one of the southern cities which Timoshenko was trying to save. If the story was true, it completed a parallel of Red Army history: Timoshenko fought at Stalingrad (then Tsaritsyn) after the Revolution, when the White Armies of Denikin and Kolchak were trying to crush the new Russia, and (according to orthodox Communist history) Stalin himself superseded the Red generals, saved the city and Russia with a series of campaigns over the land where the Nazis advanced last week...
...seen rolling silently into town, bearing wounded to the hospitals. In the opposite direction rumble convoys of men and materials to reinforce the Eighth Army. Men with bandaged limbs and heads sit on the porches of hotels awaiting their chance to go to the front again. Tanks can crush British bodies, but nothing seems able to crush their spirit. In one hospital there is a young Tommy who won great fame as one of England's best swimmers. He will never swim again. Both his legs have been amputated. Yet he is happy to be alive and thinks...
...with the plea: "Save Suez!" But Churchill has got a clear record of insistence that North Africa is vital, that it is a hub of the Allied war scheme. Still, with the probability of a vast German attack on Russia, and existence of a major Japanese attempt to crush China, danger to the United Nations loomed on every sector of the battlefront. And nowhere had there yet been signs of an offensive to endanger the Axis. All the signs pointed to a summer of bad news for the Allies...
This week the clock struck. The time for Hitler's great attempt to crush Russia had come...
This time they had to pin down the Russian army in order to crush it, for the Russians can even now retreat 1,000 miles without even reaching the Ural industrial area. To do this, the Germans had to be free to attack along the whole 2,000-mile battlefront. For this the Germans had to wait for good weather. Not until mid-June can the ground be counted on to be fit and hard in the north around Leningrad (a month later than in the Ukraine...