Word: eastward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Arno River valley, behind which the Germans have been building the "Gothic Line" (see map). Its outposts were reportedly at Pisa, Florence, and Rimini. However, Allied sources revealed that an additional defense in depth had been constructed farther north-from Marina di Carrara, some 30 miles above Pisa, eastward to a point 18 miles above Florence...
...rapidly that the pursuing Allies-making 15 miles a day along the flat Tyrrhenian coastal plain-had trouble keeping contact. The German center in the hills and the left along the Adriatic, falling back more slowly, faced dire peril. Through the flagging right the Allies might knife suddenly eastward, surround the rest of the Germans...
McSpaden set the terrific pace in Los Angeles last January with six under par for four rounds. In San Francisco, Nelson did even better, with a blistering 13 under par for 72 holes. Moving eastward, the competition kept going at such high pressure that one or the other seemed bound to crack. But neither did. At the end of ten major tournaments, McSpaden had piled up a dazzling total of 69 strokes under par, with Nelson only nine behind...
...this activity fortified an ancient hope of U.S. geologists: that the great Gulf oil strata of Texas and Louisiana sweep eastward clear to the Atlantic and northward along the coastline, perhaps all the way up to Maryland. It will be years before that hope is finally confirmed or disproved. But meanwhile the southeastern boom fosters a nearer-term political purpose for the rugged individualists of the U.S. oil industry. As Oil Czar Ickes backs his unpopular Arabian pipeline (TIME, Feb. 14, et seq.) with dire warnings that the U.S. "cannot oil another war," the industry can use every...
...facts doomed the two continents to division, jealousy, rivalry and constant warfare. Russia, however, was the Eurasian exception: in topography and resources it was more like the U.S. Gilpin thought the U.S. and Russia would follow the same pattern of growth -the U.S. moving westward to the Pacific, Russia eastward to the Pacific...