Word: gathering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...desperate attacks to break the left arm of Hodges' army. Recklessly they expended sorely needed first-rate fighting "men in futile efforts to smash the most advanced spearheads. In two days they spent more than 60 tanks, gave up the intensive battle for the next two days to gather more strength...
...distinguished playwright who is a naval officer and has written mostly about the Baltic Sea and the defense of Leningrad. Speaking specifically for the magazine Snamya, of which he is an editor, but inferentially for all Russian writers, he said that Russia's postwar writing will: 1) gather from partisans, soldiers, sailors, officers and workers the whole truth about this war; 2) glorify Russia's heroic traditions; 3) promote "Slavism" and see to it that the German enemy, which has twice hurt Russia, will never divide the Slavic peoples again; 4) memorialize German bestiality as it was revealed...
Coming suddenly in the third period, the game's only score saw Fodor gather in a pass on the Lowell 30 and gallop down the sidelines to go into the end-zone standing...
...Words." The White House did not immediately announce Wilson's resignation. Next day, as if nothing had happened, Donald Nelson finally summoned some 150 top WPB men to a long: postponed "harmony" meeting. (Many times, according to Charlie Wilson, Nelson had promised to gather the feuding staff together to straighten out the quarrels, "but always manana...
Rugged German resistance had blocked anything remotely like one of Monty's old desert breakthroughs; the Allies had failed to bring off their prime objective of entangling the German armor in a battle of destruction. For the moment the Allied problem was to gather more power, wheel it into position, get another drive started...