Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Farther north, Red armies hammered at Vitebsk. New thrusts sprang out of Nevel. Striking across dense forests south of Lake Ilmen, Russian troops had torn a ten-mile gap in German lines, cut an important railroad. A drive north of the lake threatened the great stronghold of Novgorod. Somewhere, the Stavka hoped, the German line would burst under the fierce pressure, let the Red flood through...
...Stahlmen started off the second half with a spurt. Paced by Dean Hennessy, they managed to narrow the gap to about ten points. The spurt was short-lived unfortunately and the Coast Guard boys had little trouble the rest of the period. The final quarter went much the same way, and, as mentioned before, the final count...
This private RFC would bridge the gap in the supply of available credit to small business by doing what banks and insurance companies cannot do, and what Boettler & Snyder fear investors may be unwilling to do. N.I.C.C. would...
...danger was still greater in the south. There Nikolai Vatutin's army of half a million men had torn a 200-mile gap in the lines of Field Marshal Fritz Erich von Manstein, and was now racing into the pages of history with furious momentum...
...cliques, we are playing into the hands of the enemy. More than that, we are jeopardizing our entire national future. Many of us in the '30s feared that a left-wing reaction would draw labor so far away from the main body of American sentiment that the gap could not be closed without a disastrous struggle. ... I am deeply alarmed today over the possibility that a right-wing reaction may draw some sections of capital so far away from our traditions as to imperil the entire structure of American life as we know...