Word: highway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russians made for Gleiwitz frontally-where the defense belt was deepest. Near it they veered a dozen miles to the north, found the weakness, came up on the main Katowice-Berlin highway. A fast run up the Autostrasse to important Breslau was the reasonable thing for the Germans to expect. Instead, Konev's tanks turned left, cut cross-country to a road that entered Gleiwitz from the southwest...
...southeast, the 25th (Major General Charles L. Mullins) was probing toward Highway 5, on which there was heavy northbound enemy traffic. In a three-day battle, the "Tropic Lightnings," as the men of the 25th style themselves, took only half the town of San Manuel. The second half was not much easier-by-passed Japs held on for days...
...crossing of the unfrozen Vistula 57 miles south of the city, widened his bridgehead and then struck with the full weight of his armor to carve out a breakthrough. Zhukov's tanks fought and won two battles as they sped northward to the Warsaw-Lódź highway. Eighteen miles north of the city another Russian force made its crossings, struck through to join the main column on the highway. Warsaw was taken from the rear. By the time it fell, most of Zhukov's columns were closing around Lódź, 70 miles...
...Commission seemed to find the most fascinating possibility of all in the civilian walkie-talkie. The walkie-talkie, which had not been allowed out in public before, got a ten-megacycle highway to stroll in. If a plane can now talk to the ground, and a tank commander to his tanks by walkie-talkie, FCC reasoned, why can't a store direct its delivery trucks while they are on the move? Or, suggested the New York Times, instead of an aproned farmer's wife yoohooing to her husband in the field to come in for lunch...
...mountain it is possible to smell the victory, clear and sweet. Its odor is different from the odor of defeat in eastern China. It is as different as is the odor of the valley of the Burma Road, full of bananas, pineapples and tropical ferns, from that of the highway to Kweiyang, covered with ice and the stink of death...