Word: movement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...important road-junction point of central Germany. They were less than 180 miles from Berlin. Patton had already come that many miles, in less than seven weeks-through thick fighting and across the Rhine. His 4th Armored Division was busily engaged in its specialty: spearheading a typical Patton flanking movement. One of its miles-long columns was only 152 miles from Berlin...
...several problems confronting your union. . . . Have any representations been made to the management concerning the Tetter mines which are scattered all over Siegfried Proving Grounds? Has a vote been taken on a strike on account of the quantity of German 88s that keep getting into the tanks? Has the movement to secure a 20-hour day received any support? Particularly, I have been wondering about a problem that makes these proving grounds almost unbearable-that is, the number of dead and wounded tank drivers that show up in the tanks tested there. Did you and the rest of the crew...
Strong Heave. The Allies had only begun the one strong heave which Churchill had predicted would end the struggle quickly. In their expanding sectors east of the Rhine, the Americans were speedily turning to fluid movement. After a surprise crossing, Lieut. General George Smith Patton Jr.'s Third Army was on the loose (see below). Lieut. General William Hood Simpson's Ninth Army had slashed a quick opening, 'after its crossings downriver from Duisburg, and cut a bypassing path north of the Ruhr Valley's complex of industrial cities. Lieut. General Courtney Hicks Hodges' First...
...classicists" like Bach, Palestrina, Victoria and the modern imitators of their polyphonic styles. Most ministers and congregations are either indifferent or hostile to change. Volunteer smalltown choirs, unopposed by professionals, are still enthusiastically flatting their way through the complicated, sentimental standbys. And even in Manhattan-hotbed of the classicist movement-one of the two old hymns that Martensdale will sing will also be heard in 70% of the big city's churches this Easter...
Kelly's pen was sharp from the first, but as time went on he dipped it into ever darker ink. Manners gave place to morals, nose-tweaking to vivisection. Spoofing the Little-Theater Movement in The Torch Bearers, he harshly satirized a blustering