Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Facts. They could say they had launched the biggest pitched battle ever fought. Acting on the fundamental Clausewitz dictum, "Concentrate the maximum of forces in the direction of the main blow," the Germans had drawn forces from both southern and northern fronts. They had thrown into this great push toward Moscow more than two-thirds of their entire infantry forces in Russia, three-quarters of their Panzer forces. Altogether the Germans were using some 1,700,000 infantrymen, 450,000 motorized troops, 14,000 tanks...
Marshall Field's Chicago morning-paper-in-progress (TIME, Sept. 22) last week made important additions to its general staff for the Big Push-due to begin in mid-November-against Colonel Robert McCormick's Chicago Tribune, America First's Greatest Newspaper. The staff announced this week by Publisher Silliman Evans...
...scoreless first half, it looked like Winthrop's day because, after one touchdown play had been called back on account of a quick whistle, Bill Eustis passed to Bob Drake to the Deacon three-yard line. Here the half ended, however, before the Puritans could push it over...
Adolf Hitler, with the audacity of a boxer who tells his opponent the exact moment when he plans to put in the knock-out punch, announced last week that his supreme push was coming...
Second tally came late in the fourth quarter, when Danny Gorenstein tossed the pigskin to the ever-present Cummings who went to the two. Gorenstein piled through center on two plays to push the total to 12, and to cap the climax, Cummings snatched a three-yard for the conversion...