Word: overrun
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...week's end the British had cleared about a third of Athens. But from Epirus in the northwest came a sudden yelp of alarm. General Napoleon Zervas, barrel-chested commander of the pro-Government EDES guerrillas, protested that ELAS forces had overrun eight villages in his territory. Next day he abandoned his headquarters at Ioannina...
...building-to-building battleground. Saarlautern, the area's second city, was already a flaming ruin-the target for more than 6,000 German shells, because Major General Harry L. Twaddle's 95th Division had seized its chief bridge intact. In Dillingen, where Patton's men had overrun a major steel plant, the Americans were able to advance only a few hundred yards in five days. Dillingen was part of the Siegfried fortifications, bristling with ingeniously placed pillboxes. For each one reduced there seemed to be two more ahead...
Moscow might frown, but persistent Belgian Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak knew what he wanted: a Western European Bloc. Pausing briefly in Brussels last week on his way from London to Paris, he made a historic statement. Said he: twice in a generation Belgian neutrality had been violated, Belgium overrun; as a result Belgium had renounced forever her traditional policy of neutrality and independence. He added "The British will supply military equipment to us. A certain number of Belgian soldiers will go to Britain for training in British methods...
...tougher job in winning the rest of the Philippines. One day last week a 70-m.p.h. typhoon hit Leyte briefly and rain fell to mire the jungles nearly all week. Such weather inevitably favored the defenders. The U.S. drive on land slowed down to a walk after it had overrun about 50% of the northern half of Leyte. Ormoc, the key western port where the Japs landed and deployed in a ten-mile semicircle, could be approached only from the north or the south unless the U.S. troops attempted to come over the mountains between Dagami and Jaro-a stony...
...such a Britain," said B.I.S., "would be useless to the U.S., both commercially and militarily. If it had existed in 1940, the Germans would have overrun it as easily as they overran Denmark. . . . Thus the only way for Britain to be of value to the U.S. is for her to continue with her large population and her great, enterprising industrial economy. And the only way she can maintain these is for her to have immense export markets for her goods, services and investments, as well as the means of access to them-shipping and airlines...