Word: gaine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...toward this, Barmine wrote: "With the help of Sidney Hillman, a small, thinly camouflaged Communist minority took over the American Labor party, representing half a million votes in New York. . . . The next step in the Communist conspiracy was the attempt through the Political Action Committee of the C.I.O. to gain a dominating power in the Democratic party...
...others. But they were not generally disorganized or suffering great casualties. In Italy they obdurately contested every yard of the Allied advance toward Bologna; it seemed as if they were fighting this battle, so far from home, more for the sake of their tattered prestige than for strategic gain...
...Gaining its fourth straight triumph, the Crimson varsity eleven trounced a heavy but inexperienced Boston College team, 13 to 0, to conclude the pre-vacation football season before 43,000 cheering fans Saturday afternoon at Soldiers Field. Sparked by brilliant line play, the Lamarmen outran, outpassed, and outmaneuvered the Eagles to gain the victory under a blazing October...
...safety of the paratroopers depended on the Second Army's speed. And the Second Army's speed depended in part on the paratroopers seizing bridges so that its tanks and big guns could roll ahead without interruption. The whole was a fine calculation of military risks to gain a foothold across the Rhine. In the first surprise the Second Army pushed to Eindhoven. Thereafter, as often happens in war, the stroke did not go according to plan...
...block to invasions from the east of Europe's Atlantic seaboard. Her Army was embryonic, her Navy was all but destroyed, but armies and navies can be rebuilt. Above all, France was still the world's No. 2 land empire. The power that supported her claims might gain a potentially valuable ally...