Word: drove
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...railway link between Moscow and Rostov. They commanded the middle reaches of the Don, although they had yet to master its lower channel, where most of the river's traffic moves, where Russia breeds her fighting Cossacks. Some 100 miles below Voronezh, the Nazis seized Rossosh. Then they drove on south and eastward...
...German line, pushing it back. Rommel patiently shifted one of his crack Nazi mechanized divisions from the short to the long side of his line, to prevent being hemmed in too close to the sea. Then, at dawn one morning, Auchinleck's linesmen cracked the short side, drove through a division of Italians, advanced five miles in 90 minutes and took 2,000 prisoners...
...printed them all, along with the gibes of the Hearst and Patterson-McCormick press, the full texts of radio commentators. For several days headlines about Ingersoll and Draft Board 44 all but drove the war off PM's front page. The draft board, reconsidering its decision, reaffirmed it, by a 2-to-1 vote...
...About two days later, they decided to abandon Burma and we started off with General Stilwell's crowd. We drove about 150 miles west in the trucks and jeeps and then had to abandon them one by one if they got stalled even for a few moments. We were ordered to save out only what each one thought he could carry up the Chin Hills and abandon the trucks. I knew we would have to take care of all the sick in the company of 105 who followed General Stilwell out, so I ordered each nurse to carry some...
...next day Rommel began seeing to it that the remainder of the British Army was not allowed to rest and recoup by retiring. In a week he drove the British from Halfàya Pass, from Sidi Barrani, from Matrûh, from Fuka. Only at El Alamein, 70 short miles from Alexandria, were Rommel's men and tanks so exhausted that he had to pause to reform...