Word: drove
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japs were surprised. Shells fell around the boats as they pushed their way into a 50-yd.-wide channel through coral reefs. But the Japs were too late, their resistance disorganized. The green-clad troop tumbled out onto a strip of beach and drove the defenders back into the jungles with gunfire...
...Infantry Stays. On the first day the Americans, behind a smoke barrage, drove into the northern edge of town. They dug in. At dusk the order came : "Tanks will leave town. Infantry will stay." During the night more doughfoots moved in. The Germans counterattacked at dawn, were held and pushed back, then settled down to a fierce defense of every house, every pile of ruins...
...thousands of people . . . shouting something about a 'swindler' who was caught trying to take off-in his plane. It must be the man he was looking for. It was. On a kind of tumbril ... sat President Roosevelt. A gigantic banner over his head read 'This man drove us to the shambles'. . . . Cameras whirred, the crowds pointed their fingers and sang derisory songs. Ash trays from the offices were emptied on the head of the President. America had awakened...
This bit of propaganda, making use of an institution as British as mutton pie, followed Foreign Minister Molotov's announcement of wider autonomy for member states of the U.S.S.R. (TIME, Feb. 14). It also drove home the point that the Russians are determined to regain and keep the briefly free (1918-40) Baltic countries...
Surrender would not be easy for the Finns. If the occupying Germans chose to fight, they could turn the whole country into a battleground, keep an iron hold on Helsinki until the Red Army drove them...