Word: drove
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Flamboyant Erwin Rommel and cold-mouthed Fedor von Bock were Germany's two top generals in a year whose laurels were reserved primarily for fighting men. Rommel, who drove to within 70 miles of Alexandria before he was stopped by the British, established himself as one of the great virtuosos among field commanders. Bock directed a brilliant campaign which reached the west bank of the Volga, but the final spark that would have meant victory...
...between companies and battalions, the battles on the Stalingrad front suddenly increased in scope and fury. "Large groups" of Russians within besieged Stalingrad tried to break out and join Russian forces on the outskirts. On the Don front, west of the city, two German regiments and 80 German tanks drove back the encircling Russian lines. The Russians said only that they retreated. This week Moscow dispatches reported "a temporary stalemate," and said that the Russians were now looking to winter weather to win their winter offensive...
...Velikie Luki and nearby Toropets to the northeast are railways and roads, now the military arteries of a fortified rectangle. Against the eastern edge of this rectangle, between Rzhev and Vyazma, and against the upper edge just west of Rzhev and on two sides of Velikie Luki, the Russians drove last week. Their purpose was to surround both places, to cut the railways and roads serving them and the whole German system before Moscow, then by progressive sweeps to reduce and occupy the entire area...
...their teachers "think of the new generation growing up on the other side of the Rhine, sturdy fellows whose bodies [were] carefully trained." The Green family refused to budge when the German advance swept to the edge of Paris in 1914. Julian Green joined the American Field Service, drove his truck erratically on the Argonne front. So many burial shrouds, made of fine material, were delivered to his group that Author Green grew accustomed to sleeping on them and eating off them...
MOSCOW--The Red Army beat off counter-attacks and drove forward on the central front yesterday, blasting the Germans from two defense positions west Rzhev and routing a tankled infantry battalion, the Soviet high command announced today...