Word: lateralled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Its fall severed the Nazis' lateral communication between Valmontone and Velletri, their two main strongholds in front of the Alban Hills. From Artena, the Fifth Army's big guns shelled Valmontone and adjacent stretches of Via Casilina. So the main escape route to Rome of General von Flietinghoff...
Crossing the Chin and Naga Hills, three Japanese columns of uncertain strength were converging on Imphal, which lies just a little to the east of the lateral railroad that extends 250 miles to Ledo-the supply route for General Stilwell's forces advancing into northern Burma and for the...
Into the Gully. The death struggle began on the town's outskirts. Some hundreds of British guns, firing an average of 450 shells each, loosed two two-hour barrages on the last gully and ridgetop before Ortona. The first barrage covered one battalion advancing at the rate of 100...
On the central front, based below Voronezh and aimed roughly at the Germans' key point of Kharkov, the Russians launched another new attack. The General's diagnosis was indeed correct. From that area no reserves could be safely moved -and none could be added, because other fronts were...
A referee is often screened out of a play, missing the action, and drawing cat-calls from bitter partisans who feel that their team is being fouled without seeing justice done. "Putting the referees up there over the baskets should give them positions of almost perfect vision," Brown declared, "since...