Word: halte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...railroads are in working order, whereas the Russians are still rebuilding theirs. The Red Army's bold tactics have of necessity exposed a number of vulnerable points-Zhitomir, Fastov, Krivoi Rog-which the Germans were quick to attack. Though most of these thrusts have been repulsed, they did halt the tide of the Red offensive. Finally, the Wehrmacht apparently has reserves which it has now thrown into the battle (at Zhitomir, the German force was estimated...
...force seemingly too formidable to be swept into the Dnieper by the battered Wehrmacht. The Germans, despite their sudden show of strength, stood on a line which was easily pierced. In all likelihood the Nazi counterattacks were not a general, coordinated offensive, but were local attacks, intended merely to halt the Russians until the German defenses in the rear are ready...
...second night a three-minute earthquake rattled the chandeliers and the audience alike, but failed to halt the show. Carradine, who has had trouble getting back his ability to project his voice after long whispering into movie mikes, merely spoke louder. The audience stopped buzzing after some sailors yelled "Shut up, everybody...
...same way. Swedish airline officials suspended service to England, planned to ask for guarantees of safe conduct. The Government was expected to issue an official protest. But the Stockholm newspaper Nya Dagligt Allehanda urged the only technique that has ever been known to work with Nazis: get tough and halt the flying of German courier planes over Swedish territory...
...military design for victory or peace on the Western Front; and 2) her postwar design for Germany. By a calculated series of statements from Moscow, the U.S.S.R. has cultivated what would once have been denounced as an "anti-Soviet" suspicion-the suspicion that the Red Army may halt its advance on or near Russia's borders and free the German Wehrmacht for the defense of western and southern Europe...