Word: overlapped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...romp over it at will unless they meet their military match. The only major obstacles of terrain are the great rivers which flow southward into the Black Sea. While the Ukraine looks flat, it is actually underlaid by layers of rock sloping slightly upward to the east. These layers overlap one another like shingles and the rivers run beside the overlaps, with one low bank subject to flooding and one steep bluff on which most of the big towns lie. But the high bank in each case is on the west so that it presents no obstacle to an invasion...
...bombardier time to draw a bead. It is there that he is the best target for the antiaircraft guns. On likeliest directions of approach anti-aircraft guns are most heavily established. The batteries are so placed that the tops of their inverted cones of effective fire (see lower cut) overlap. Because it is better to wing a bomber before he drops his load than after, fire cones are heavily overlapped ahead of the lines where enemy bombers are likely to drop their eggs...