Word: overruning
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...months to move unless precious extra trains were put on. Meanwhile, those-who-sacrificed-least jammed Miami and Palm Beach hotels, refusing to move out for new comers. The newcomers spilled over into private houses, used up precious gas and tires chartering cabs to nearby cities not quite so overrun...
Poland, perhaps the most brutally treated of the overrun countries, first suffered confiscation of all state properties, all central stocks of textiles, food and livestock. Nine thousand factories and 60,000 commercial enterprises were taken over for exploitation by Germans. In 1942, 80% of the harvest was sent to Germany...
With Naples in the fist of Lieut. General Mark Clark's Fifth Army and Foggia behind General Sir Bernard Montgomery's Eighth, the Americans and British had clinched a useful victory in southern Europe. In 29 days they had overrun more than 20,000 square miles of territory inhabited by 8,000,000 people. The timetable had improved over the last one in Sicily, where the Allies needed 38 days to conquer 10,000 square miles. They were one-third the long way up Italy's boot, well on the way to Rome. Around Salerno, the hard...
...Corps and the British First Army) they smashed through to Tunis and final victory in Tunisia. They were ready for Sicily, for Gela, where the Germans counterattacked to the beaches and Terry Allen said: "Hell, we haven't begun to fight. Our artillery hasn't been overrun yet." They were ready for the inland march, for battle at Ponte Olivo and Barrafranca, for fierce and clever battle with the Germans at Nicosia last week...
...away. Inside the arched entrance of Newport's famed Casino, newly installed racks hold a few bicycles, and a sign reads: "Officers Club. For members only." From one or two of the ten still playable courts comes the subdued pock of a quiet game. Ten other courts are overrun by rank grass. Old Tom Pettitt, the Superintendent of Tennis, straw hat on head, still sits on the clubhouse porch. The deserted Championship Court is kept inviolate, awaiting the return of champions...