Word: marshallizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tank strategists. He scored notable victories over the Germans at Kursk, Voronezh, Tarnopol, Vitebsk. He was Kiev's liberator. His troops (he commanded more than 500,000) were the first to set foot on German soil-in East Prussia. There, in the current offensive, his and Marshal Rokossovsky's men had taken all but 700 of that province's 14,300 square miles...
...Germans used the flood shrewdly, shifting their forces northward to meet the heavily mounted drive of General Henry D. G. Crerar's First Canadian Army as it swung southward from captured Cleve to chop out a protective flank for a Ruhr-aimed offensive by Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery's big British Second Army...
...long, narrow spearhead that Marshal Georgi K. Zhukov had thrust toward Berlin broadened out. While Zhukov paused, Marshal Ivan S. Konev hammered into line on his left. The Red armies were linked along the east bank of the Oder, their flanks more secure...
...Germany. Mrs. Walters' feelings were uncomplicated by politics or protocol. So she sat down and wrote a letter in which she managed to express the simple gratitude that many similarly uncomplicated Britons feel toward the Russians. She addressed her letter simply to Joseph Stalin Esquire, Kremlin, Moscow: "Dear Marshal Stalin: My prayers have been answered and now what more can I say than thank you, Mr. Stalin, and thank you, all you gallant men of the Red Army who have brought an English bride these happy tidings. God bless you, Mr. Stalin...
...King Farouk was politically old enough to know that the question of Russia was related to the permanent problem of Egypt's ragged, underfed population. Most of them had never seen a Russian in their lives. But why had they taken to cheering madly whenever Marshal Stalin's picture was thrown on the newsreel screens...