Word: headway
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This week winter winds returned again to the southern front. But it appeared that the Germans had weathered the Russian season. There were several weeks of sticky wet weather ahead, when the determined Russians might make important headway. But for the time being the crucial battle of Russia was probably being fought in factories and fields far behind the lines, where fresh men were being trained, new weapons tooled, against the Russian summer...
They learned, also, to ally themselves with the free fighting men of the hills, to "harry the enemy like fleas in a dog's tail so that the beast can make no headway for stopping to gnaw his rear." Ling Tan's sons wandered, but always secretly to return, sophisticated in the ways of killing. The eldest son set deep traps and coolly killed his victims with his knife. The second smuggled in firearms from the hill-men, and killed only when he had to. The youngest killed for pure joy and found joy in nothing else. Ling...
...Prime Minister has been able to edge his way precariously through 25 months of war is that there has been no united opposition. The second strongest party in the Ottawa Parliament has been the Conservatives, which, under the bumbling leadership of amiable Richard Burpee Hanson, has made little headway. Actually the Liberal and Conservative Parties differ chiefly in that one is in, the other...
...Yale makes much headway through the Crimson defense this Saturday, it appears increasingly likely that it will be through the medium of passes...
Warriors Forward. Gradually the military, and especially the Army extremists, made headway. In 1931 the Kwantung Army fomented the Manchurian Incident which led to the puppet state of Manchukuo. In 1936 the military got credit for the anti-Comintern Pact with Ger many. In 1937 the Army saved the Navy's disastrous Shanghai landing party. And for a while the Army's prestige skyrocketed with the China war, which later led to the longest stalemate in modern history...