Word: perils
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...torment Russia lashed out on the Moscow front like a wounded giant beating a beast that gnaws his vitals. Stalingrad's peril was so great that distraction was necessary. For the desperate offensive, handsome, hard-eyed General Georgy Zhukov chose the Rzhev region, where the German lines bent within 130 miles of Moscow. One morning, early in August, deep-throated Soviet artillery opened up in the birchwood and meadow land around Rzhev. It concentrated first on Nazi battery positions, then on German division headquarters, finally on communications and transport centers. Ground-strafing Stormoviks joined the fray, followed by waves...
...other enemies were Russia and China. Itagaki as War Minister, excusing his protracted failure to close the "Chinese Incident" and justifying bigger & bigger war budgets, stamped China's Chiang Kai-shek as a personal enemy to be exterminated. He repeatedly pointed to the U.S.S.R. as a Communist peril and an Asian rival to be driven from Japan's ordained sphere. Less often, less pointedly in the middle '30s, when Japan was shaping the final blows to come, did he and other military spokesmen refer to the U.S. as an enemy. But the U.S. never lapsed from their...
...third day the bombers sank a small transport and the work improved. But it was too late. The spring-legged, never-resting Jap had once again got where he had started out to go. Port Moresby was in greater peril than ever before...
Perhaps Moscow, in its need, accented the peril beyond its immediate actuality. Perhaps the Red Army did have great reserves of troops beyond the Volga and in the Caucasus. But the visible fact last week was that Moscow censors permitted the most direct indications yet on record that the Red Army was badly drained, that only the foolhardy would count on the exhaustion of Germany's reserves before Russia's reserves were expended...
This week Rostov is again in peril. Timoshenko is outnumbered in material, even in men on most of his fronts. In great peril was the land of the Volga and the Caucasus, which Timoshenko had called the decisive area of Russia. But the decision had not yet been reached, and the world could easily guess what the stolid, big-boned peasant from Bessarabia was saying to his harried, divided, tired and retreating troops in the ruined fields of the Don. He was saying: "Brothers, our country is in your hands. The outcome depends on us alone...