Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Belgorod the second prong, led by tanks and motorized columns, slashed southwestward to push swiftly across the flat steppes northwest of Kharkov. The speed was so great in some sectors that the Germans abandoned much heavy equipment in the flight. Some mobile units raced to within 16 miles of Kharkov, one encircled several Nazi garrisons. A powerful secondary drive starting from Chuguev, 25 miles southeast of Kharkov, threatened a new pincers squeeze on the Ukrainian stronghold...
...student officers, who will now live, work, and do push-ups with their former students, are Ensign Jay M. Greene and Ensign Homer D. Jones. Both seemed glad to be relieved of teaching duties...
During the Mateur and Bizerte battles the Charlotte Evac was just behind the lines. The unit got so good at moving that in the final North African push it discharged patients in Beja and received some in Tunis (some 55 miles apart) on the same...
...first five days of invasion, the U.S. Seventh Army seized and widened its bridgeheads in southwestern Sicily (TIME, July 26). On the night of July 15-16, the Seventh Army then began the northward push which culminated last week in the occupation of central and western Sicily...
...list was Lieut. General Omar Nelson Bradley, who took command of the U.S. II Corps for the victorious push in Tunisia. General Bradley was leading a corps of the Seventh Army. Dispatches at the fall of Palermo (see p. 33) identified Major General Geoffrey Keyes as General Patton's deputy commander, and indicated that he might be leading another army corps. Keyes is an old associate of Patton's and an armored-force expert, whose last published command was the 9th Armored Division at Camp Campbell...