Word: overrun
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...shot. I'd glory in the bloodstains on my carpet." Wrote a correspondent: "It doesn't seem incongruous to come across a grey-haired old lady, laughingly pointing to the body of a dead German soldier." Said a choked-up Brussels merchant: "The swine have overrun us twice in a single generation." For the second time retreating Germans burned the Library of Louvain...
...first 100 miles of the British-Canadian advance, 120 launching sites were overrun, and many more were isolated as the British crossed into Belgium. Robot attacks on the 'London area fell off sharply. The Germans seemed to have abandoned the heart of the launching area around Calais, for the few missiles that came over early last week were from the Belgian coast beyond Dunkirk...
Within a week the Russians had ad vanced 125 miles, overrun 18.500 square miles, recovered all of Bessarabia, killed or captured 300,000 enemy troops. They were less than 60 miles from the Ploesti wells. 80 miles from Bucharest. In addition, their molnia...
...almost the fifth anniversary of the beginning of World War II. Then, they had handed him a disaster. With Norway overrun by the Nazis, he had said: "'I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat...
When the invasion of Russia began, Rundstedt received command of an Army Group. His job was to overrun the Ukraine, and he did his job better than either of his colleagues in the center and the north. When winter came and a disappointed Hitler assumed direction of the war, Rundstedt was hustled off to France to prepare for possible British invasion. For two years he built his fortifications and trained his none-too-ample forces. He stopped the Dieppe raid. He failed to stop the invasion of Normandy. He also disagreed sharply with Hitler's favorite Rommel, was relieved...