Word: pillboxed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Already the industries which help to make Stalingrad vital to Russia were disrupted by the approaching siege lines. Thousands of factory workers laid down their tools and streamed westward to take up guns with the embattled Red Army. Bunker by bunker, from every concrete pillbox and every swallow's nest hollowed nastily from the earth, the Russians were putting up a defense of Stalingrad that would rank at least with those of Sevastopol and Rostov. Unquenchable in their hearts was the hope that in the end it would rank with Leningrad and Moscow-prizes that once were within...
...battle line has moved some 1,400 yards forward. Soviet soldiers deep under ground in the lower stories continue to resist. We have sent negotiators to explain to them that further resistance is useless, but they won't come out. . . ." So it was at every fort and pillbox, on all the stinking, bloody hills around Sevastopol, where the dead rotted in the sun and there were always more Germans and Rumanians to be killed. So it was at Balaklava, eight miles south of the city, where the Rumanians astounded the world, charging and charging again until they took...
...white building which may be seen from the subway "pillbox" to the North is Littauer Center, home of the School of Public Administration. Behind it are the Law School and the new Hemenway Gymnasium. On Oxford street, beyond the New Lecture Hall, are the Mallinkrodt Chemical Laboratories, and further on still is the University Museum, which houses the famed glass flower collection...
...Commando leader, 29-year-old Major K. R. S. Trevor, sent his men probing for information about Nazi defenses in that likely invasion sector. Commando machine guns and anti-tank guns, brought ashore in parts and quickly assembled, silenced a German pillbox. Rattled Nazis fired at each other. Nazi tracers lanced out toward the barges and naval-escort vessels, waiting offshore. The British spotted two German patrol vessels, sank one and set another blazing. Some members of the Commando kept up a covering fire from the beach; others slashed the German barbed wire, knifed, shot and clubbed German sentries. Farther...
...experience, as the one which Sir Alan constructed between Lille and the Somme last winter while the B. E. F. Second Corps, which he commanded, was marking time. Observers believe that, had the French commanders prepared as wisely and industriously as Sir Alan, instead of relying on the thin pillbox line of their Maginot extension, the German breakthrough could not have been so swift and disastrous. In France the Brooke system never had a chance to prove itself, for after being ordered into, then out of Belgium, the Second Corps was swung south of its prepared positions in a brief...