Word: mained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...General Gamelin's push in the Saar was to draw German troops from the Eastern Theatre to meet a threatened grand attack-or he was shrewdly waiting for the Germans to get even further into Poland before turning on the real heat. Just as France's main Maginot Line is manned by veteran regulars, with young reservists performing the attack work, so Germany's Wall is manned by 20 divisions (some 250,000 men) of the regular Land-wehr, mostly veterans of 35-45, specially trained for defense. For sallies and counterattack which the Germans executed with...
...entry of one motorized unit, traveling far ahead of its support, into the heart of Warsaw, led to premature announcement of the capital's invasion on Friday. Snipers at windows, machine gunners on roofs, drove the invaders back to Warsaw's southwestern suburbs, but there the main German forces soon arrived, too, and Warsaw was hemmed in on at least two sides. To its defense from the west came Polish divisions retreating in good order out of the big pocket formed around Poznan, where the Nazi attack had been light for fear of harming the thick German population...
...have automobiles. A trainload of war-wounded, had to wait hours every few miles while its crew repaired blown up rails. The diplomatic exodus came to rest at Sniatyn, a town near the Rumanian border where there were boarding school dormitories. Ambassador Biddle got a fine "mansion" on the main street. There were no lights, of course, and no running water, but his wife and family were safe. His British neighbors across the way marveled to see him sweating, stripping to his undershirt, as he loaded baggage into his official car, which was taking his girl clerks into Rumania...
Impartial observers were compelled to conclude this week that Britain and France, and also Germany, were withholding their main air-power for definite reasons. Allied reasons apparently were: 1) to wait for the U. S. to clarify its neutrality stand, on which Allied plane replacements depend heavily; 2) reluctance to invite German "atrocities"; 3) delay until objectives on the Western Front were truly defined and prepared; 4) delay in the hope that the German people could be disaffected from A. Hitler by the War of Pamphlets...
...Propaganda Ministry (see col. 2) exulted over the capture of each unpronounceable Polish town, and handed over photographs of Hitler at the front, Hitler comforting the wounded, Hitler sitting in an automobile, Hitler peering through a telescope, Lord Macmillan at first clamped down on all wire and radio photos. Main channel of Britain's publicity appeared to be the radio, over which announcers with an air of detached candor and without heat discussed military operations; and the cinema. Moving newsreels of evacuation of children from London, of mothers weeping at the separation from their children, placed the responsibility...