Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Objectives. The Russian push toward Bryansk, if successful, would open the path to Smolensk as well as yield the Russians control over the six main rail roads radiating from Bryansk. The pincers movement converging on Kharkov threat ens the German-occupied Donets basin, most valuable prize of the Nazis in Russia...
...Pushing south and west from Kharkov, the Red Army will emerge onto open, forest-free flatland ideal for swift, grand-scale tank maneuvers and mobile warfare. The Germans already fear the loss of this year's harvest in the Ukraine. Trapped by a push that threatens to reach the southern anchor of the Dnieper line and the Crimea, they would be up against a more fearful strategic problem: to retreat would mean giving up their greatest prize; to stand and fight it out would be risking annihilation of approximately...
Yanks Forward. In the final push, U.S. troops drove forward in the north, Canadians in the center, Britons in the south. The Yanks found the terrain worse than Tunisia. The parched, brown land tossed in rocky ridges like the arrested waves of a stormy sea. The roads twisted through the valleys and German guns covered them from the slopes. The Yanks' job was to blast those slopes and scale them...
...seesawing brings the abdominal organs up against the diaphragm when the head is down with enough force to push the breath out; then, when feet go down, the organs pull down the diaphragm and air is drawn into the lungs. Other advantages of the Eve rocker: wounds and burns of the trunk can be attended to while rocking is going on; anyone can teeter the board for hours on end; it is harmless-ribs and liver cannot be injured...
...drawing or had not been tardy (later relaxed to allow one ten-minute tardiness per week) was eligible. At the first drawing (March 15) Consolidated's president, Harry Woodhead, announced that after one month of the plan there had been a drop in absenteeism, enabling the company to push out six and a half more bombers that month...