Word: inners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...under Russian gunfire and bombs from Allied air fleets, operating in support of the Russian armies. Some 25 Red divisions, backed by four tank and one cavalry corps, had drawn a 50-mile arc around the bays and narrows of the Stettiner Haff and Dammscher See, the outer and inner harbors...
...battle surged to the towering, 40-ft.-thick brown walls of Intramuros, the 16th-Century inner city. An observer who watched the first shells drive home growled: "Christ, 755 just bounce off that wall." Beightler mustered h's guns. In one hour, in the greatest land barrage of the Pacific war, 10,000 shells smashed into the wall and the city just beyond. Slowly the masonry crumbled and American troops forced their...
...traitors, cowards, shirkers, defeatists. All Army "stragglers" and all males over 13 were ordered to report for Volksstürm duty. The defense of the city was laid out in three zones: 1) the suburbs, including Potsdam, Erkner, Bernau, Lankwitz; 2) the outskirts of the city proper; 3) an inner citadel based on the Potsdamer Platz and Unter den Linden. Even the zoo was fortified...
...Hinduism) is the-philosophy derived from the oldest religious writings in the world: the collection of ancient Indian scriptures called the Vedas. The common basis of India's many religious sects, it teaches the fundamental sameness of all religion. Its basic tenets are: 1) that man's inner nature is divine; 2) that his purpose on earth is to manifest this eternally hidden divinity; 3) that truth is universal...
...Germans fought on, tried to break out in furious counterattacks. There was little future for them if they succeeded. The arm that enclosed them was an inner envelopment by this week. Rokossovsky had developed a similar encircling sweep, aimed at Danzig and the German Baltic coast...