Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thing was clear to everybody: the 1941 tax bill that Congress will shortly consider is probably only a shadow of worse to come. Meanwhile, the committee prepared to push it through anyhow...
First Pause. The Germans' first push, after an advance of 355 miles to the farthest point, halted for several days. This could be attributed to Russian counterattacks, to the fixed defenses of the Stalin Line, to nasty weather, to the number of prisoners the Nazis had taken, to continuing resistance behind the German lines-particularly in the Bialystok-Minsk area...
...there was an over-all explanation of why the first German push came to a halt. After a drive of 355 miles, any Army inevitably gets its communications tangled, has to straighten them out and bring up fresh supplies. Moreover the German attack, although led by Panzer spearheads, had to be followed by infantry to mop up and take possession. Marching at even such a rapid rate as the Nazis claimed the infantry obviously could not keep up with the tanks...
...were about to shove the British into it at Dunkirk. After two weeks in the Balkans they had taken Belgrade and put the British to rout. But after traveling 250 miles in the first Russian week and 100 in the second, the Germans had not done much more than push the Russians behind their old borders. After two bitter weeks they had cleared only a little beyond the areas which they themselves had, since 1939, handed to Russia on a silver platter...
...Push a mutual defense pact with Mexico...