Word: linked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Prize. In the European power game Trieste was more than a pawn to be attached to Italy or Yugoslavia. It had long been an important link between central Europe and the Mediterranean. Now it lay at the southwestern end of Russia's new area of power, 1,700 miles across Europe from the northernmost end in Norway's Finnmark. Most of the 250,000 Triestinos think of themselves as Italian, but the Slav tide-Slovenes to the north, Croats to the east-washes into the city's suburbs. To the northeast lies D'Annunzio...
Leader's Man. These men spoke not only for their nations but for themselves. They had met Franklin Roosevelt face to face, had broken bread with him, heard his infectious laugh, studied with him the problems of war & peace. He had been their surest common link, the tolerant architect of their coalition. And something of what they felt was felt in like degree by leaders of the United Nations everywhere...
...soldiers of five different nations in the van, struck from the Senio River across the Santerno and then the Sillaro. The Germans gave ground carefully, holding village strongpoints until the last. By week's end the Eighth had driven farther into the Po basin and was reaching to link up with the Americans below Bologna...
...Last. There was no overall pattern to German resistance. Along the Netherlands front, in the crisscross of canals, Canadians had to battle for every yard as they drove to link up with another drop of airborne troops. There Field Marshal Johannes Blaskowitz, with his 50,000 troops, faced certain isolation. The Germans blew dikes, set up new lines behind 400 square miles of flooded lowlands. Blaskowitz meant to fight to the last...
...publicity-hating brother, Edward K. Davis, 64, president of Canada's Aluminium, Ltd., was on the stand for six weeks, while Government lawyers tried to prove that Aluminium, Ltd. was the corporate stooge of Alcoa and its link with the international aluminum cartel. All told, the Government and the defense filled 58,000 pages with testimony of these and other witnesses, brought 1,803 exhibits into court. Then, in 1940, the Government and the defense rested...