Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thousand years later, men carried this already hoary name to the colony of Massachusetts where, one morning in 1775, it suddenly became historic. The name & fame of Lexington spread like wildfire through the colonies, until at last it even reached a lonely hunting camp far beyond the Cumberland Gap. "Let us call this place Lexington," said one of the hunters admiringly. And so they...
Another Strong Heave? All along the broad eastern front the Russians were seemingly ready for their own last strong heave. General Andrey I. Yeremenko's Fourth Ukrainian Army inched in on Teschen and the Moravian Gap entry to the Czech industrial complex. There were rumblings of readiness from Marshals Ivan Konev's and Georgi Zhukov's fronts before Dresden and Berlin...
With the present gap in opinion between the idealistic architect and the dollars and cents city officials, the solution to the traffic jam seems...
...western Hungary, captured the rail center of Szombathely, then outflanked the Nazi positions southeast of the shallow lake called the Sea of Vienna to plunge into the Austrian province of Burgenland. On both sides of the Danube and northward in Slovakia, Malinovsky's troops fought toward the Bratislava Gap and Vienna...
Toward Victory. A great gap had been torn in the Jap blockade. Supplies, flowing up the Ledo-Burma Road, were revitalizing Chungking's ragged riflemen. Not even the Jap capture of Laohokow and its U.S. air base (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS) could hide the overall fact that China's armed strength was increasing...