Word: defendant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Road to Paris. Beyond the Plain of Caen, the road leads straight to Paris, 120 miles east. That fabulous prize was more than the hub of the whole intricate French rail network; it was the symbol of German victory and of French defeat. The Nazis would defend Paris as fiercely as Berlin. To halt an Allied drive on Paris they would throw in their entire strategic reserve-if they were sure that was where Monty was headed...
...bald Armenian Colonel General Ivan Bagramian and Colonel General Ivan Chernyakhobsky, a 32-year-old Jewish tank expert who helped to defend Voronezh in 1942, launched thrusts north and south of Vitebsk which bypassed that stout Nazi bastion by 15 to 25 miles. Then they closed the gap behind it, cutting off five German divisions. At week's end Stalin announced that Vitebsk was in Russian hands...
...furiously"; a Zuikaku-class carrier hit by three 1,000-lb. bombs; a light Zuiho-class carrier hit by two aerial torpedoes; another light carrier perforated by seven 500-pounders; a Kongo-class battleship, three cruisers, two destroyers and three tankers damaged. Of the few Jap planes remaining to defend their ships 26 had been shot down...
...Washington last week, 13 men sat down to plan a history-making project. The men: four admirals, four scientists, three generals, a colonel and, as chairman, Charles E. Wilson, vice chairman of WPB. The project: a permanent scientific high command to prepare the U.S. to defend itself in any future war. It will undertake the first permanent mobilization of scientists in U.S. history...
...nature of the Partisan warfare makes proper medication impossible, with all the Allied help. The basic principle of the Partisan strategy is never to defend a certain area at all costs, but to retreat when the enemy pressure reaches a certain point and conquer new territories else where. This means constant movement of the improvised hospitals and the wounded; therefore, there is no permanent hospital or rest for anybody when the pokret (movement) is ordered...