Word: join
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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 to the west...
...again open. The land blockade of China was pierced; now there was once more an overland route from India (see map). In the northern Burma Theater, Wanting finally fell and 10,000 ragged Japanese were driven back down the road to Lashio. Soldiers from China pushed on to join hands with soldiers from India...
...extracted a Soviet promise to respect the Republic's pre-Munich frontiers. But last week Russian Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov was reported to have sent a disturbing note to the Czech Government in London: the Soviet would respect its promise, but Ruthenia showed a strong tendency to join the Soviet Ukraine. Said the Kiev radio: most of Ruthenia's 800,000 citizens speak a Ukrainian dialect, have voted in a plebiscite (organized by the Ruthenian Communist Party) for incorporation in the Ukraine. Already Peoples' Committees were dividing large landholdings among the peasants...
Last week Gallup pollsters reported: 1) 90% of Canadians want the Dominion to join a security organization; 2) 76% approve participation by Canadians in an international police force; 3) but only 39% approve participation while Canada, as a small nation, lacks a permanent seat on the council that controls the police...
More numbing than British Foreign Office snubs had been Russia's resolute refusal to join the 15-nation commission. Main reason was "technical": the Soviet Union had insisted on a member for each of its 16 constituent republics. During more than a year the commission had ordered no trials, drawn no indictments. Meanwhile, Russia tried war criminals periodically. In Lublin a month ago six SS (Elite) Guardsmen were indicted, tried and hanged in three days for mass murder committed in the Maidenek "extermination" camp. While the United Nations were still floundering for a workable plan, Russia, as usual...