Word: drove
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...relieve the men in the "patch of hell." Gradually the Allied foothold across the Lek was strengthened. But still there was no letup of the German pressure. For this was also a battle of desperation for the Germans. U.S. columns advancing eastward from the rescue corridor drove into German territory a few miles from Cleve, the anchor of the Siegfried Line. This was not merely a battle to rescue the British airborne. It was a battle to turn the whole right flank of the German army...
...drove through heavy waves of sweet-smelling air where hundreds of dead Germans, pocketed in mountain hideouts, had been pulverized by the artillery barrage. Whole hillsides were reduced to rubble. The crests of the rocky knolls strung out along the entire breadth of the Gothic Line were sprayed with dead Germans wiped out by long-range artillery and bypassed by hard-pushing infantry...
Marshal Leonid A. Govorov's Leningrad army, fresh from its triumph over the Finns in Karelia, swept across Estonia. Its left flank drove through from the southern end of Lake Peipus. Its right flank drove through the lake-studded swamps bordering the Gulf of Finland. At a mile-an-hour clip, this force rolled into Tallinn, last but one of the occupied capitals (according to Soviet reckoning) of the Soviet republics...
While Govorov's army was wringing the last of the Nazis out of the northernmost of the Baltic States, the Second and Third Baltic Armies, directly to the south, drove through Latvia to squeeze the Germans against the Gulf of Riga. To close the trap, the First Baltic Army swung north to take Riga at the bottom of the Gulf...
...became its president nine years later. When the company won a contract to carry air mail from San Francisco to Chicago, he built the planes for the job, and then found himself running an airline. From the first he disapproved the carnival atmosphere aviation had then, and the disapproval drove him to innovations that have become standard in all U.S. air transport...