Word: preventers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Greece, free of the Germans, was rapidly occupied by the British. Athens and its port of Piraeus were entered by British troops after the Greek flag was hoisted by patriot fighters. The British aim was to: 1) prevent internecine war between left and right; 2) maintain Britain's influence in a traditionally close Mediterranean country; 3) provide food, clothing, medicine...
...White House made no announcements. Then last week the New York Times asserted flatly that a White House "ruling" would prevent the President from making any more public appearances. For the next two days the press gnawed excitedly at the question: What "ruling?" A ruling by the President's physician? A ruling by the Secret Service...
...along the 460-mile front. But they could not know its full weight as it grew by the hour, despite the best the Germans could do, despite the worst of weather and supply troubles. The Germans sought to throw the weight out of balance. If only they could prevent the gathering of force at the most dangerous spots. If only they could pierce through the wedge north of Aachen that threatened their most vulnerable point-where a narrow thrust had been driven toward the end of the West Wall above Nijmegen...
...houses of the haute bourgeoisie near the Bois there was always a profusion of flowers and of cold dry champagne to drive away the drowsiness that follows the rich meals. But after dinner the talk turned inevitably to politics which, in these houses, meant one thing: how to prevent Communism. The feeling was one of intense fear of something that might come...
Typical of the Balkan reversal was Marshal Tito's new role. Having fought for years to get the Germans out of Yugoslavia, he was now mobilizing all his forces to prevent the enemy from escaping. Coming to help him were the Russians, who had rolled past Sofia across Bulgaria to within 200 miles of the Adriatic. If an Allied landing now followed in the Balkans, the Germans left in Greece and the Aegean would be cut off, like the Germans in southwest France. Then Yugoslavia and the Hungarian plains would offer Allied armies an open invitation to Budapest...