Word: drove
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Victory's Pattern. The Russians struck from two points at once. One column drove south from the city. Another pushed out from the tiny beachhead at Oranienbaum, 25 miles from Leningrad. Before both columns a broom of TNT swept a clear path...
They had to claw their way along a mountainous, broken front of 20 miles. In the north the French, under Tunisian veteran General Alphonse Pierre Juin, drove the Germans from Mount Ferro (3,500 ft.), Mount Pagano (3,600 ft.) and Mount Pile (3,700 ft.). They slid into the village of Acquafondata, gained a hold on one of four roads to Cassino. In the central-southern sector, U.S. and Canadian soldiers took Mount Porchia (where 16 stretcher-bearers were killed), Mount Capraro, Mount Trocchio, the strongly held village of Cervaro. From Trocchio, they overlooked Cassino itself. They rushed down...
...tars laid down effective cross fire on Jap trenches, the infantry charged bravely with grenades and rifles. One Chinese soldier penetrated a Jap dugout and, pulling the pin in his grenade, blew himself and three Japs to kingdom come. In four days the Chinese killed an estimated 300 Japs, drove the rest south. Jubilant Chinese presented Stilwell with a captured Samurai sword. Jubilant Stilwell returned to India...
Elise Marie Munk and their five children stood together while the men shoved the pastor into a grey car and drove off. Then she phoned the police, learned that the men were not officials, that her husband had been kidnapped, not arrested...
...that the lady was his wife. "Behold the rascal," they cried, "who allows himself to have a wife entirely to himself in San Francisco!", Then one put his hand on his revolver and said: "We want to see her!" One Irishman shot Giovanni through the shoulder while the other drove a knife into his thigh. Giovanni blew out one man's brains. The other...