Word: harassments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Auchinleck, in command of the battered British Army which had been pushed back within fighter-plane range of Alexandria, began to harass the Germans to keep them from resting. His New Zealanders dove into the southern flank of the German line, pushing it back. Rommel patiently shifted one of his crack Nazi mechanized divisions from the short to the long side of his line, to prevent being hemmed in too close to the sea. Then, at dawn one morning, Auchinleck's linesmen cracked the short side, drove through a division of Italians, advanced five miles in 90 minutes...
...raids into Italy, hitting in the vicinity of Fiume and Trieste, were part of guerrilla operations that constantly harass Axis communication and supply lines, keep the Italians in jittery jeopardy. Russian reports said that several railway stations had been captured by General Mihailovich's Yugoslavs from German-Italian forces; they claimed that 39 locomotives and quantities of rolling stock had been destroyed...
...referring to any problem arising out of censorship. What we have in mind is the necessity for candid reporting and honest criticism, on the one hand; and, on the other, the natural desire at this time not to offend or harass any loyal person or group or institution working in the common cause...
...Information, Please. In quarter-page newspaper ads, Pacific Tel. & Tel. begged subscribers to make sure the number they want is not in the telephone book before they harass information operators. P.T. & T. wants to reform some 242,000 lazy characters who strain war-taxed switchboards by asking for listed numbers...
...last week that General Draja Mihailovich's Army, now grown to a total of 200,000 men, had swooped down to attack Axis columns in Bosnia, then had retired again to craggy hideouts. In Croatia, deserters from Pavelich's Axis-puppet army were forming "Green Cadres" to harass the German. At Metkovich, Dalmatia, guerrillas derailed an Italian troop train, brought Italian casualties in Yugoslavia to a total of 5,000 men in five months...