Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Having given the chewing surfaces a good stiff bristle-battering, the outsides of teeth and gums should be brushed gently straight up & down, section by section, about six strokes to a section, all around the mouth. Finally, the inner surfaces of the teeth should be cleaned with a "push and pull action, comparable to that of fiddling...
...early days of the attack, General Eisenhower had hustled to a headquarters at Verdun, conferred with his top generals. In 15 minutes he had appraised the scope and probable aims of the push, taken his decisions, issued his orders. First Army reserves bore down from the north, compressed the salient's right flank, recaptured Grandmenil and Manhay. On the south, General Patton's armor blasted a corridor to Bastogne, pushed on to the north and then west to encircle the German tip south of Saint-Hubert. Patton also broadened his attacking front all the way east to Echternach...
...this desperate push Rundstedt threw away the rule book. There were reports that hundreds of U.S. prisoners were stripped and shot for their clothing and identification tags. In any event the leading elements of the German columns were in many cases American jeeps loaded with German troops in U.S. uniforms and equipment complete to dog tags. German tanks and trucks were marked with American stars. The deception was highly successful and forced U.S. Military Police to make time-consuming checks of all vehicles using the roads in northern France and Belgium. American slang and American lore became the one sure...
Leyte was declared secure. Now the job in the Philippines was to build up Allied forces, especially in the advanced outpost of Mindoro, for the big push on Luzon. The Japs knew it, and reacted in familiar fashion: they sent down a task force of surface ships to blast the soft-shelled beachhead with heavy guns...
...pock the airfields around San Jose; night after night U.S. ack-ack and Black Widow night fighters took a heavy toll. Day after day U.S. bombers roared over enemy-occupied bases on Luzon, destroying 144 planes in three days. It was an aerial war of attrition, before the next push could begin...