Word: gate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Smolensk was the goal of two big armies, headed by Colonel General Andrei Yeremenko, hero of Stalingrad, and Army General Vassily Sokolovsky. After their forces cracked six lines of steel and concrete, Moscow commented jubilantly: "[The line] which closed the so-called Smolensk Gate has been broken...
Market at the Gate. When workers complained about high vegetable prices. Albina persuaded farmers to bring their produce right up to yard gates at shift-change times. Typical result: Employes bought peaches at $2 a box, which sold at $2.89 elsewhere...
...Yugoslav coast of the Adriatic. These reports had a ring of truth. On that coast, at its few practicable points of entry,, the Germans can hope to gain time and inflict heavy losses in a profitable rear-guard-stand. It is there, if anywhere, that they must hold a gate to their inner fortress-and fight to bar the British and Americans from a junction with the Russians...
...Navy men have a slogan representing their attitude toward the Japs," he said. "It is 'The Golden Gate in '41. They know that we are really just starting the war in the Pacific...
...moment came. The long black limousine bearing Franklin Roosevelt entered by the east gate of the Parliament grounds, moved up the driveway between ranks of dun-clad Canadian Wacs standing at smart attention. A great roar rose from 27,000 throats...