Word: northward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germans tried to stall the widening northward advance of the British Second Army. The British held...
...typhus epidemic by being relatively louse-free, especially in the South, where clothing is light. To date, moreover, the disease has been confined to the South. But if it traveled north it might enter its dangerous phase among warmly clad slum dwellers who get lousy in winter. And such northward travel might well happen in a wartime year when there is great opportunity for travel and little time for rat killing...
...Line. From the foothills above Bologna they were only 80 miles across the plain from Verona and Padua. The German troops retiring from Rimini, on the eastern end of the Gothic Line, and those holding the western end of the Line near La Spezia now had to race northward or be cut off, for Verona and Padua are their only ways...
With the railroads bombed out, German units struggling northward had to rely on difficult mountain roads under constant guerrilla attack. German columns often zigzagged, swung now right, now left, were sometimes forced to retrace their steps to try another escape route. Others tried to filter northward in guerrilla fashion, through forests at night, occasionally donning civilian clothes...
...capital's police and quell the rising opposition to war and Fascism. He had been a practising sadist. He had kept a private apartment where he personally tortured prize victims. He had been lame since the day a gnat flew into his eye as he raced northward in an open car to escape the Allies. The car had swerved into a ditch. Caruso broke...