Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that morning Franklin Roosevelt was a lucky man. He had committed the U.S. to the defeat of Hitler and the nation was still militarily unprepared; now the U.S. had gained at least a few precious days or weeks to push its arming, had found another great power besides Britain to keep Hitler occupied a little longer...
Nature's Pincers. Between the Arctic and the Black Sea lie 3,000 miles of Russian border (see map, p. 24)-as long as the U.S.-Canadian border. The long miles bulge in a great convex arc-incipient giant pincers against Russia. It was to push these pincers as far as possible from Moscow and the industrial area of European Russia that the U.S.S.R. had grabbed buffer areas every time Germany had pushed over a nation on the Soviet border...
Peace with China would be nice for Japan, leaving it free to push southward. But peace in Europe, leaving the U.S. and Britain free to block that push, is the last thing that Japan wants...
...British were baffled. They had thought this would be a major push. They had withdrawn hastily, scarcely offering rear-guard resistance, apparently willing to fall back 120 miles to Matrûh, the railhead from Alexandria, where the main British force was based...
...went, last week, back & forth, push & counter-push. These giant raids brought out important facts of strategy. In their hasty withdrawal the British had shown the Germans exactly what the Germans wanted the raid to reveal: the British plan of leading the attacker on to Matrûh. On the other hand, the Germans had shown the British that the Nazi attack-broad-fronted, wary of bombardment from the sea, in fanned columns which could flow around hard cores of resistance-would be harder to stop when it came than the Italians' Indian-file dress parade had been...