Word: eastward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...site of the once great, now ruined Dnieper Dam. The Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic last week announced that before the dam was dynamited to render it useless to the Germans (TIME, Sept. 1), its 740,000-h.p. turbines and other power machinery had been dismantled and moved eastward to safety...
This was what the Tokyo radio on Jan. 18 sent out, in Japanese, for the gratification of Jap listeners in the Southwest Pacific. Although not beamed eastward, it was picked up and translated by attentive FCC monitors on the U.S. Pacific Coast...
Japanese troops also got ashore at three points on Minahassa, the thin, eastward-reaching upper handle of Celebes. Here the Jap came by sea and by parachute. He was already in British Sarawak, on the north coast of Borneo. Hein ter Poorten and his Army Air Force commander, thin-faced Major General L. H. van Oyen, promised that oil wells would be fired, refineries dynamited before the Jap got to them for the supplies he now needs more than anything in the world...
...fighting. Last April, kicked out by the Fascists, he crossed to Yugoslavia, just in time to meet the Germans coming in, narrowly missed a grenading by an advance Nazi motorcycle squad, and with a U.S. military attaché drove upstream through the Panzer army to Belgrade. His further progress eastward included a stop in Ankara, a hitch in Syria on the British push into that hellish terrain, and the job of covering the Cretan campaign from Cairo...
...Eastward their objective was Kerch, at the extremity of the peninsula-a likely spot from which to bomb, and perhaps from which to invade, the Caucasus...