Word: forward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...battle to smash through the Siegfried Line to the Rhine had begun. This week General "Ike" Eisenhower's top heavyweight-the biggest and most powerful of his armies in Europe-still slugged forward in the heaviest part of the job. Lieut. General Courtney Hicks Hodges' U.S. First Army pounded unremittingly at the crouching enemy, in a tremendous burst of infighting against the Germans' main forces in the West Wall, trying for a knockout before winter...
...pent-up bolt of Allied power struck. A thunderous preparation by 1,000 bombing planes shook the earth for miles around a new sector northeast of Aachen. Behind the bombardment - and a rolling barrage by 10-inch guns - the battle-seasoned U.S. First hurdled a small river, moved forward toward Cologne. The Germans backed stubbornly, foot by foot, before them...
This time there was an added incentive: the Empire wanted it too. Already two Dominions-New Zealand and South Africa-were tackling social-security problems. In London a conference of Dominion Labor Parties resolved: "The conference looks forward to a revival . . . of a Socialist [Second] International...
...were the days when hate was born. As Nicolai Tikhanov of the Writers' Union says: "In the course of cruel battle grew a hatred of the Germans - a heavy hatred, an indistinguishable hatred, a personal hatred, a hatred which still moves the Red Army and the Soviet people forward." On June 23, 1942, Mikhail Sholokhov wrote a terrific news paper story called The School of Hate, setting the pitch for the hate propaganda, of which Ilya Ehrenburg became the strident genius. The Russian people still feel that hatred and are very much afraid that the British and the Americans...
...York Herald Tribune Correspondent John Chabot Smith made the serious charge that on two successive days official announcements of Fifth Army progress failed to jibe with the operational maps. Headquarters lamely explained that patrols had reached forward points, then came back. Even the Army newspaper Stars and Stripes dared to raise the question with the headline: "Is or Isn't the Gothic Line Cracked?" Wrote Correspond ent Sergeant Jack Foisie...