Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...violet who belonged to one of the Middies. After begging all night for the band leader to let her sing, she finally "condescended to come up and sing a few numbers" while her partner beamed in ecstasy. It finally took three sax players, the janitor and Charlie Sigety to pull her away from the "mike." Realy, though, she wasn...
...Nicholas Horthy listened to the emissary from the north. Then, under his strong hand, a cabinet of Magyar generals took over. Warned the new Premier. Colonel General Vitez Geza Lakatos: "Hungarians! We must defend our own frontiers. . . . We must no longer think, 'You can trust the Germans to pull...
...astronomically compounded interest: 22 German divisions on the Rumanian front were doomed to defeat, most of them to death or capture; 25 Rumanian divisions which had been helping the Nazis turned against them. Twelve Bulgarian divisions which had eased the German load in Yugoslavia and Greece had to pull out. The Germans had 14 to 16 divisions in those countries; the bulk of them could never get back to the Reich...
Wherever it could, the Eighth Army pushed patrols out to test the forward positions of the Gothic Line. By all reasonable standards the Nazis should have been ready to pull out: the landings on the Riviera to their rear were cutting off one of their escape routes; they were reduced to twelve battered divisions...
...pushed between the Canadians striking south toward Falaise and the Americans striking north 12 miles below, the Seventh Army finally began to pull back. By this time Kluge was bringing part of the Fifteenth Army down to hold the line of the Seine but it was a question whether the Seventh Army could reach the Seine. The tattered Seventh might wriggle out of its corridor but the roads all the way back to the Seine were being strafed, and the bridges across it had been bombed out. In a coffin-shaped area roughly outlined by the Seine, Falaise, Argentan...