Word: endlessly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week again all was quiet on the eastern front. But behind it Red engineers built roads and bridges, supply trains moved up in endless columns, fresh troops marched westward, for the next offensive. Where it would come few knew. Best guesses: 1) toward Lwów; 2) across northern Poland; 3) both...
...edge of the city, and on through the Hampshire fields, the General watched the almost endless convoys of trucks and guns. Occasionally he studied a notebook, checking over the names of the officers he was to meet, down to the commanders of battalions and companies...
...life Jack Curtin, 59, had never felt the need to see the non-Australian world. Years ago, Vance Marshall, an Australian laborite now living in London, visited Jack in Perth. "I'm on my way to England," Marshall said. Curtin looked out the window, at the endless, cloudless western sky. "Isn't there room enough in Australia?" he finally asked. "Not for me," 'retorted Marshall. "Australia's in the back wash. It's back of beyond of even the fringe of things that matter. I want to be where history is written...
...They freeze in storms of ice-cold rain and hail. Their feet burn and smart horribly from endless marching through mud. Their stomachs growl because food arrives irregularly and often must be dropped from airplanes. Even ammunition is often scarce when the supply trains cannot proceed because of enemy activity or bottomless mud on the roads...
...Nazi correspondent, for Herr Goebbels has apparently decided that the best way to toughen German citizens is to scare them stiff. The report added: "The perpetual order is: positions must be held until retreat is ordered, and the order must be carried out at any price. Thus there are endless marches through night and darkness. . . . More than once entire regiments-and once an entire division-have had to fight a way through to our own lines...