Word: intact
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long ago as the middle of December, the Allied High Command decided that the Germans intended to make their last stand for North Africa in Tunisia. Allied strategists believed that Rommel would continue to retreat, delaying the British Eighth Army all he could, but keeping his battered troops intact. In Tunisia he would combine forces with General Walther Nehring and present a hard, solid front...
...Rommel's strategy of delay and retreat had worked out. He had kept his forces intact and General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery's pursuit became more difficult with every mile he moved west. Rommel was falling back on strength, Montgomery was moving away from it. There were fighter bases along the Tripolitanian coast, but Rommel plowed them up as he retreated and sowed the furrows with mines. Montgomery had to build and equip fields for fighter planes as he moved along. The weather was on the Axis side. No one knew how long it would be before...
...would have been undisputed master of Europe, looking for other continents to conquer. He could have diverted at least 250 victorious divisions to new conquests in Asia and Africa. But Joseph Stalin stopped him. Stalin had done it before-in 1941-when he started with all of Russia intact. But Stalin's achievement of 1942 was far greater. All that Hitler could give he took-for the second time...
...keep his home front intact, Stalin had only work and black bread to offer. He added a promise of victory in 1942 and called to his people to sacrifice collectively to preserve the things they had built collectively. Children and women foraged in the forests for wood. A ballerina canceled one performance because she was stiff from chopping wood. Production norms were increased, apartments went unheated, electricity was turned off four days a week. At year's end the Russian children had no new toys for the New Year's celebration. There were no red-cloaked wooden replicas...
...long been used for such softening. But a slightly more complex resin of the same type proved able to draw even sodium atoms out of solution, replace them with hydrogen. This merely substituted acid for salt, but still another resin, made with amines instead of phenol, extracted the acid intact, leaving pure water. Both resins were gradually used up but could be revived by reverse treatment with stronger solutions...