Word: eastward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...though at tremendous cost and with the possibility that the Wehrmacht's blue chips soon might be stacked too high for the Red Army. It was on this sector that the Germans had massed their greatest strength. They hammered forward last week to occupy most of the great eastward bend of the Don, where it comes within 48 miles of Stalingrad and the Volga, Russia's next line of defense...
...taken the minor Maikop oil fields, facing the great range of the Caucasus which divides the Black Sea from the Caspian. On the west one German column was headed for the Black Sea coast to skirt the towering mountains and move in behind them. Another German column thrust eastward through Elista, possibly to drive at Astrakhan, where the Volga flows into the Caspian, or possibly to cut the Volga farther north...
Their researches highlight an ominous fact; the U.S. now has a vast reservoir of plague infection among the wild rodents of the West. It is too widespread to be wiped out, and it is spreading eastward. Last year it was discovered for the first time in Colorado and North Dakota.* Says a U.S. Public Health Service doctor: "There is no reason to assume that the infection will not spread to the rodents of the Great Plains and into the Mississippi Valley and Eastern...
Elsewhere in old Yugoslavia at least six smaller Axis-surrounded islands carry on the struggle: 1) in the mountains behind Split, bands of Croats fight the Italians; 2) farther north, around Delnice, other Croats strike hard & often at Italian garrisons near Fiume; 3) eastward on the Croat plain, patriot guerrillas are so active that the Germans have acknowledged the necessity of sending flotillas down the Danube to fight them; 4) in the Croat forests, an underground peasant organization, Zeleni Kadar (Green Quarters), resists both the Germans and their puppet terrorist, Ante Pavelich; 5) Slovenes in the farthest northern section resist...
...popular belief is that the lemmings' persistent dash to death is an instinctive longing for their former home in the sunken continent of Atlantis. But, notes Elton, the lemmings also surge eastward into the Baltic, northward into the Arctic. Not the whither but the whence, says Elton, explains the lemming migrations. Overcrowding and lack of food in their mountain homes move the lemmings to seek Lebensraum elsewhere. (A few reactionaries stay behind to breed the nucleus of another horde.) The lemmings are great swimmers, and since they have no way of knowing how vast the seas and oceans...