Word: eastward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Seven brine-stained Liberty ships steamed eastward across the Pacific toward the U.S. They were carrying home the same Army cargoes they had been taking to the Philippines; the Army decided it had enough there already. Last week, in mid-Pacific, the wireless sang out another order: turn west again and set a course for Shanghai...
...millions, in transverse migrations, Germans struggled westward out of New Poland, northward out of the Sudetenland and Austria, to swell a nation already overpopulated and reduced in size; while Russians struggled eastward, some out of slavery and some out of voluntary servitude, towards home and an uncertain welcome...
...Soviet attack was many-pronged. From Manchouli on the west, armored spearheads tipped by armored trains thrust eastward along the Chinese Eastern Railway toward Harbin, making gains up to 50 miles a day. On the north, the Amur River was crossed in two parallel pushes. From the Vladivostok panhandle, two more drives were launched, one westward along the railway to nip Harbin in a giant pincers, the other southward into Korea, where the port of Rashin was captured...
...years the dynamic Germans pushed the Slavic peoples eastward, across the Spree, across the Oder, out of Pomerania and Silesia, out of the flatlands of East Prussia. Now Germans-at least ten million of them-were losing their lands to Slavs...
...policy was one thing; making it work would be another. Several sources reported last week that one of the secret Yalta agreements included a promise to allow Russia some 50% of all reparations. Russia had been busily practicing what the commission now preached, uprooting whole factories and moving them eastward by the train load. Could the Russian zone, partly stripped, actually be treated as "a single entity" with the British and U.S. areas, where no such confiscation had been planned? Would the Russians want to collect from the other zones as well, or would Moscow consider its bill as paid...