Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...both flanks, were squeezed between the armor and infantry and raked by a murderous cross fire. Soon every highway, road and country lane in the area was a mass of burning, wrecked vehicles. There seldom has been such a quick mass slaughter as this. The battle of the Falaise gap was several days in the developing, but the slaughter, decimation and dispersion of 20,000 to 30,000 Germans in the Maubeuge-Mons area took place within a few hours...
Bottleneck. One natural defense remained. A scant 15 miles south of the Kwangsi border, before which the Japs were poised, is the Hwangshaho defile, where river, railroad and highway all pass through a gap five miles wide and eight miles long. Here, if anywhere, a stand must be made. But it must be made with lesh against machines. Cabled TIME'S Correspondent Teddy White: "Kwangsi's one resource, its one hope of resistance, now lies in marshaling a people's army such as helped to stop the Japanese in their first penetration of this province four years...
...Sandy" Patch exacted terrible losses from the enemy, in his four-week pursuit up the Rhone and Doubs to the Belfort Gap, where he made junction with the U.S. Third Army. The Germans lost an estimated 60,000 in western France who never had a chance to fight...
Before he knew of its formation, the enemy was in a pocket, his only escape through a 25-mile gap...
...stormy petrel of the U.S. foreign service got a new job last week. To fill a part of the expanding diplomatic gap left by the Phillips resignation (see The Presidency), the State Department hurriedly appointed Career Diplomat Robert Daniel Murphy, 49, as political adviser to General Eisenhower. Bob Murphy, who had the game kind of job when General Eisenhower invaded North Africa, will have the rank of ambassador. He will deal primarily with problems of German occupation...