Word: northwards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pressure on Chiang to allow its crack Eighth Route Army to move from the barren northwestern provinces into the rich Valley of the Yangtze. Fearing that the Fourth Route Army plus the Eighth might be two Trojan Horses in his camp, Chiang ordered General Yeh to march his Army northward out of the Valley. Instead, the Army marched southward. South of the river, it met Chiang's Central Army and somebody opened fire...
While the British struck on to Tobruch last week, trying to get there before Italy could bring up German help, the amazing Greeks moved northward through snow & cold toward Valona in a race against the Nazi aid promised Italy in Albania. Stukas were already in operation...
...huge ice masses which covered parts of the U. S. in the last Glacial Age. That ice was half a mile to two miles thick, weighed two to eight billion tons per square mile. The great weight squeezed the land below, pressed it down. Since the ice retreated northward 15,000 to 25,000 years ago, the ground once under it has been springing back upward, like a dry sponge after a weight on top of it is taken away. This recovery is not constant, takes place as a series of intermittent jerks. Long intervals may separate the jerks...
...cruiser and destroyer screen that had led the British battlewagons to Valona kept going northward. Some of them swept the Italian coast as far as Bari, a harbor right on the Achilles' tendon above Italy's heel. Another detachment swept northeast as far as Durazzo, Albania's second-best landing spot. Sir Andrew was on his flagship, had brought his fleet up on a quick run from the African coast, pausing to contact supply ships, after pounding the daylights out of Bardia and points west. While he was busy at Valona his light forces made it clear...
...Greeks poured on. Pushing northward to Porto Edda, they crossed the marshes above Lake Butrinto which the Italians had thought were impassable. They waded armpit-deep through icy water, pushing their guns on rafts. They crawled over the mountains from the east, cut the road to Delvino and planted their guns on the heights above Porto Edda. The Italians set the town afire and retired up the coast road, leaving to the Greeks a destroyer (damaged by British bombs) which had taken refuge in the harbor...