Word: eastward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mountain areas considered, impassable in any kind of weather, trapped the 7th Indian Division by severing its communication lines. At week's end, the 7th Division was still encircled; but the Japs were slowly falling back under a flanking threat from West African troops who had wormed eastward...
...Mukhtar's warm reception has encouraged the Digest to make postwar plans that will cover the Moslem world, from Morocco eastward to Iran. One stirring sign already noted: many a Moslem reader puts away his copy of Al Mukhtar against the day when his sons learn to read...
From rugged Epirus eastward through the towering Pindus range to the plains of Thessaly, Greek met Greek. The presence of the Nazi clouded the issue, but did not hide the fact that the killing of Greeks by Greeks had to do with the shape of postwar Greece. Underground leftists fell upon rightists and middle-of-the-roaders.* Adventurers mingled with zealots, monarchists tangled with republicans, professional soldiers fought guerrilla bands. The Germans alone profited from the mellay...
That barrier consisted of a series of transverse ranges, stretching north eastward from Mount Massico on the Tyrrhenian coast, through Venafro and Isernia to Vasto on the Adriatic. No single engagement cracked this German line. The job was done in coordinated thrusts-the first by Lieut. General Mark Clark's Fifth Army at Mount Massico, then one by General Sir Bernard Montgomery's Eighth Army at Isernia, and another by General Clark's men at Venafro. These break-throughs were followed by two smashes at the flanks. Vasto fell to the Eighth; the Fifth probed into...
...common: 1) a primarily economic binder, customs unions rather than political mergers; 2) a need to look to Moscow for guidance in their external affairs, to Russia for much of their trade; 3)3 role to play in securing Russia's southwestern frontiers and thwarting German ambitions eastward...