Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Push was on, bigger in numbers of U.S. soldiers than any in this war, bigger in shells and bombs and obliteration than that of any war. The September optimists, in & out of the Army, had been wrong. Only a military miracle could now bring V-E day by Christmas. U.S. civilians hoped for the miracle, did not expect...
North of Metz, the XX Corps welded several bridgeheads across the Moselle into one, engulfing Thionville, then launched a push which carried across the German border. The 3rd Cavalry Division seized the German villages of Besch and Wochern, while the 10th Armored rumbled through a place called Launstroff-three miles inside Germany. Major General Manton S. Eddy's XII Corps, halted only briefly by counterattacks, was swinging around to the south and east of Metz toward Saarbrücken...
Ohio. P.A.C. failed to push Ohio into the Democratic column; it was even unable to boost F.D.R.'s Cleveland plurality to its 1940 figure of 138.000. P.A.C. had concentrated on Senator Taft. His statewide plurality was kept down to 22,000 against a weak candidate (from a high of 170,000 in 1938). But not even this was a clear-cut accomplishment for P.A.C.; Bob Taft's isolationism had definitely hurt...
...First Canadian Army fought for four weeks across the oozy Dutch polders, plodded relentlessly through knee-deep mud. Floods, pouring through demolished dikes, were so deep that often troops had to push through captured towns in amphibious vehicles. A British correspondent described the battleground as "the abomination of desolation." For days on end, he said, the troops had to stand waist deep in water. Canadian Pressman Alan Randal claimed that "conditions were the worst that the Western Front had seen in this war." He found two Canadian units that had been "fighting twelve nights and twelve days without rest...
...fascist-needling articles. Italy's Virginio Gayda called him "a creeping tarantula, going from country to country, spreading poison." The Gestapo once arrested him as a British spy. As he gained experience, he was sent to Moscow for six months, then south to cover the Allied push up the Continent. His top stories in the past year have bean interviews with Tito and Mikhailovich...