Word: halte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first time in 1944 Moscow said: "No important changes. ... " The great Mud Offensive, which in seven weeks had swept from the Dnieper to the Carpathians, had ground to a halt...
Slowly the Chinese units fell back. To the battlewise lao ping, China's G.L, it was clear: he had not the strength to halt the enemy, nor the air support which he enjoyed in the battles in the south. Major General Claire Chennault's Fourteenth had no good bases in the north...
German Nazis and Spanish Fascists, still alert, watch and welcome a trend which they did not create but know how to use. The U.S. will not halt and reverse the trend simply by damning it as "pro-German," "anti-Allied," "Fascist," or even "anti-democratic." The U.S. cue is to understand Latin American nationalism for what it is, channel it to Good Neighborly ends by convincing Latin Americans that they can be for themselves without being against...
...Carpathian wall is to halt the Russians, it will likewise divide the south ern German front into two distinct sectors, just as the Pripet Marshes divide it farther north. In this case the Germans will have two new fronts to defend...
...rules of the game, the Russian advance ought soon to bog down. The spring floods should halt them-just as mud should long ago have halted them. The irony is that the early spring, which produced mud weeks before the usual time, has produced gradual thaws so that the usual spring floods may not occur at all. At least, the Germans cannot count on them...