Word: eastward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...further battering, that the Russians would somehow last through the winter, that he believed they would withdraw behind the Volga River. He based his faith, he said, on Harry Hopkins' report from Russia, and on the estimated 40% of Russian manufacturing that lay in the Ural Mountains and eastward...
...That eastward darkens everywhere...
...A.F.C. is virtually a huge one-way airline. Eastward to Britain each month fly fleets of sleek Lockheed Hudsons, big Boeing Flying Fortresses, plus some Consolidated Liberators (6-24) and a few Catalinas (PB-Y). They fly without the amenities of commercial airlines, part of the way without radio beams, with minimum equipment. The planes are built, not for transatlantic cruising, but for bombing flights...
...rare mineral that is quite worthless except as an indication that diamonds may be found near by. But the significance of the discovery had nothing to do with diamonds. It had to do with the fact that hitherto gorceixite has been found only in Brazil, whose bulge, if slid eastward around the globe, would fit neatly into the Gulf of Guinea, against the shores of Sierre Leone and the Gold Coast...
...Ukraine's capital, Kiev, whence he was in excellent position to get in Kiev's rear, and complete its encirclement (see map). Even more dangerous to Russian hopes was his capture of Kremenchug, 160 miles to Kiev's southeast. From there he could launch a north eastward drive on 150-mile-distant Kharkov, the Ukraine's big railroad junction and industrial center, threaten the Donets coal basin. Unconfirmed were reports that the Germans had also reached Perekop at the top of the Crimean Peninsula...