Word: focuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Alexandria, the focus of British preparations, there was an air of bustle, part generated by fear, part by determination - an atmosphere of abnormality which showed itself, for instance, in the crowds of Egyptians who had taken to riding on the tops of commuting trains, first in their rush to escape bombs, later just because it was cooler there...
...Fronts. Hitler's battle for Moscow had its focus at Smolensk. He had broken through the Stalin Line at the gap near Smolensk-the open space between the defending Dnieper and Dvina Rivers, north of Orsha (see map, p. 16). Through the gap the usual spearhead poured and for the first time Moscow itself was a Luftwaffe target. In a five and a half hour night attack, 200 planes planted big explosions near the Kremlin, said Berlin. But the Russians declared that only "isolated" raiders got through, called the attempt a "failure...
...Army outfit that is celebrated neither for its morale nor for its soldierly qualities is the 44th Division (New York and New Jersey National Guard) stationed at Fort Dix, N.J. It has been the focus of many stories of unruly action, such as mass grousing over Army pay, breaking windows to show displeasure...
Last fortnight the U.S. apparently decided that General Weygand might form the focus of opposition to all-out Vichy-Berlin collaboration. Released from internment at Bermuda, the French tanker Shelterazade, full of U.S. oil, was en route to General Weygand's North African armies. The oil shipment should demonstrate to the natives and Vichy alike that the U.S. still has a stake in French policy...
...chancelleries and general staffs, secret memoirs, state papers, conspiratorial records of revolutionary parties and governments, data on plot and counterplot, war, espionage, assassination, treason. Far more complete than the great French, British and German war libraries (even if these were available), the Hoover Library makes Stanford the future focus for all important study in 20th-century social history...