Word: fields
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Germans retaken virtually all German territory except a few ridges which the French retained as better strategic ground for defense than their own border hills. French heavy artillery busied itself dropping shells into a 20-square-mile area north of Sierck in the hope of landing one on Nazi field headquarters, believed to be somewhere near Castle Thorn. The French withdrawal from the Warndt Forest was effected four days before the Germans learned of it and was performed chiefly to escape flood waters...
...Open Wound." Only the colors of the flags of Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland are different, the design is the same-a cross on a plain field*-and wealthy Stockholm with her many lagoons, beauteous "Venice of the North," was a brilliant forest of cross-flags last week as the President of Finland alighted at Bromma Airport with brisk, energetic Finnish Foreign Minister Eljas Erkko...
...Sweden: yellow cross, blue field. Denmark: white on red. Norway: white & blue cross on red ground. Finland: blue on white...
...patrol having confirmed the news that the Soviet forces were marching into Poland by sighting a Soviet tank through field glasses, General Sosnokowski ordered the remnants of his Army (3,000 men) to disperse hastily into small groups. Then the General, his aide and two sergeants threw away their uniforms, put on the oldest clothes they could find and started out to meet the advancing Soviet Army. The Soviet patrols merely looked upon them as humble peasants. Once they hopped a ride in a Soviet Army truck, but mostly they walked. After 13 days of sleeping...
Goring. "I think there can be no doubt that Field Marshal Goring himself would have preferred a peaceful solution, but in matters such as these it was Herr Hitler's decision which alone counted; and whatever Field Marshal Goring himself might feel, he was merely the loyal and submissive servant of his master. Moreover, he had come down definitely on the side of Peace a year before and it may have been difficult for him to adopt this course a second time. He invited me, however, to come and see him that (Aug. 30) afternoon...