Word: maginot
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...democratic world looked to France to provide the first mighty upset to Hitler's calculations. Did not France's spruce, civilized generals, packed with the lore of St. Cyr. command the smartest army in the world? Was it not based on the impregnable subterranean bastions of the Maginot Line? Furthermore, in these early days of September 1939, the Maginot Line was widely regarded, not as a defensive masterpiece alone, but also as an ideal point of departure for an invasion of Germany. Amateur strategists pointed out that France's possession of the escarpments of Alsace-Lorraine, jutting...
...defender was a better equipped, better trained army, hardened by a year of conflict and steeled by a year of hate. But still the German progress was only slightly slower than in France. At least for the moment, Russia's Maginot Line of men and tanks and guns was holding on the plains before Stalingrad. But southward the North Caucasian flatlands were suffering the same fate as the Dutch-Belgian lowlands. The Germans had wheeled south of Marshal Timoshenko's main defenses and were overrunning lightly defended territory up to the Caucasian foothills. Their swift advance down...
...must think he is behind a Maginot Line of deferment...
...chief of Yugoslavia's fortifications, he revealed himself as a Balkan De Gaulle, holding that a nation of such limited financial means should not try to build Maginot Lines but should concentrate on mobile and offensive possibilities. His superiors opposed him and he was transferred to the military inspection service...
...Friday afternoons because her mother entertained her 'lover' on those days." ^ M. Corre, the conservative who ran the Epicerie Danton, scrimped so that his son could learn German and become a big salesman some day. Result: because he knew German, young Corre was sent to the Maginot Line, killed. ^ Odette kept the butter & eggs store and wore green-black clothes and looked pious and demure. "Actually she was an infidel and a Socialist." The milk she sold was bluish and watery; her eggs "bore unmistakable evidence of having been near hens...