Word: dejectedness
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It was late at night. In the austere conference room of the British military headquarters in Athens stood four dejected Greeks. Three were dressed in ragged civilian clothes. The fourth wore the dirt-stained uniform of the guerrilla forces (which included a turtleneck sweater). All were haggard and unshaven. They...
Even if the freshmen came away dejected at the lack of feminine pulchritude, they were shown the purpose of PBH. Bond sales, blood donations and similar contributions to the war effort have been centered around PBH.
Now there were signs of demoralization among the retreat-adept Germans. North of Nikolayev, the Sixth German Army was ringed and destroyed. South of Vinnitsa three encircled German divisions were being whittled down. Thousands of dejected prisoners wearily marched to Russia's rear. The fortified German line on the...
The Punch. The Wehrmacht still fought with skill and fury but it could not deny victory to the Russians. What it desperately sought now was to survive as an army, establish yet another line of defense, prevent the infection of defeat from spreading northward. It remained a powerful fighting organism...
Tolbukhin's victory was the reward of daring. After a gap was torn in the Nazi lines north of Taganrog, his tanks and Cossacks rushed in, then wheeled south towards the sea. Other units, meanwhile, stormed Taganrog's front gates. When the din of battle died down, 35...