Word: gaine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rail, highway and water communications which radiates from the capital. The eventual importance of this drive depended more on German plans than on the immediate scale of the Russian attacks. If the Wehrmacht hoped to strike again at Moscow and central Russia this year, the Red Army's gain and the German loss were enormous. If the Germans had already abandoned such hopes, and intended only to hold some tenable line in central Russia, the successive losses of Rzhev and Vyazma, and even the looming threat to Smolensk, did not matter so much to them...
...could Hitler strike without spending too much-too many of his too few planes, too much of his manpower? At Britain? Not without running into the most highly organized defensive net in the Allied world. At Spain? Not unless he was willing to support a very poor cousin and gain doubtful ends (TIME, March 8). Out of the North African trap, at Morocco or Egypt? Rommel had tried and failed. In Russia? Not without beginning all over again where the campaign began last year...
...February we believe we have achieved the best results against the U-boat yet experienced. . . . There still is probably a larger output of U-boats than the total numbers being killed, but the gap is being reduced." Thanks to increased production and reduced sinkings, there has been a net gain in Allied shipping since last August of some 1,250,000 tons...
...great opportunist, like all good soldiers, Rommel was ready to exploit any gain. And he was a gambler. If he were lucky and could crack Thala, he would have access to the Kremamsa Plateau, could pour troops onto that flatland, could drive against the flank of the British First Army which sprawled across the top of Tunisia. Then the whole Allied strategy in North Africa would have to be recast. This was the crisis when the weary young men braced themselves and Allied reinforcements rushed up to give them...
...until his second throw in the final round that Fisher was able to pull ahead of the Ithacan star and gain for Harvard a title which it has not held since Murdock Finlayson's heave...