Word: patch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...culminating blow - and the tenth of Marshal Semion Timoshenko's long effort to break into the Don elbow and relieve Stalingrad from the German rear - the Russians won the positions from which they must now fight for the victory. They cleaned the Germans from a great, thinly defended patch, 50 to 100 miles deep, within the Don bend and west of the corridor between the Don and the Volga. They forced the Germans to establish a defense line on the Don's eastern bank, with their backs to Stalingrad, facing the Russians on the western bank. Then they...
...politicians of both parties struggle to be seen with him when he goes back to the West Coast for vacations. Of all New Dealers, Justice Douglas looks to many of his colleagues like the white hope for political savvy and good, sound, vote-winning sense. If Jimmy Byrnes can patch up the New Deal, Bill Douglas may be the man to bring off the final cure...
...Urgency. How could it be so important to battle for a three-by-eight-mile patch of meadow, jungle and coconut grove in an economically worthless island just across the way from nowhere...
...therefore, Archer Vande-grift's tiny patch of warfare is destiny. It can mean the difference between vigorous offense and weary defense in the Pacific, perhaps between beating the Japs in two years...
With makeshift equipment, a makeshift crew of fishermen and high-school boys (plus five professional divers at $75 a day) he started out with high hopes. That was last June. It took two and a half months to patch her under water, blow her free of water and mud. No sooner had she bobbed to the surface than an engine-room explosion settled her back into the ooze again. An explosion in the repair launch alongside her did not add to the efficiency of the salvage crew, which had been in a constant tizzy anyway for fear of being torpedoed...