Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yards. British and Canadian troops who had driven into Caen were stalled by Nazi forces pulled back into the suburbs of the town, across the Orne River. The main offensive push was staged by U.S. troops at the west side of the front. They drove steadily along the roads to the south, where they must break out into the base of the Normandy peninsula. At week's end patrols entered one key town, Lessay, near the west coast. But inland strong points were still held by the Germans. One day's U.S. advance toward Saint-Lô covered...
...push to Garapan gave Hays & Hepburn special problems. It was so hot that the fluid in their batteries boiled while charging. Their equipment was frequently choked by clouds of coral dust from the roads. But they managed to stay with the foot soldiers, pausing to explain the action, letting the microphone gather the battle noises: wounded groaning, Jap bullets pinging against metal, the sharp splat of mortar shells exploding, the high hum of planes, artillery in the background, and the cries of men giving battle directions...
...much faith in his linguist's coaxing ability in the first place. At this point an armored bulldozer, piloted by a young Seabee, rumbled through the underbrush. The sergeant explained the situation to him. The bulldozer man drove his blade into the earth and started to push dirt from the ground level into the quarry where it fell across the mouth of the cave...
Every day, reported Letter Writer Britton, the sparrow comes to a certain window and pays vigorous court to its image in the glass. At first it flew at the glass and pecked sharply. Then it took to fetching pieces of food, which it tried to push through the glass. Sometimes it cuddles against the glass and croons...
...banks of the Odon River, which lies like an outer bastion to the west of the Orne. But the Allied attack stormed through southeast of Tilly-sur-Seulles, crossed the Odon and established a respectable bridgehead. Then they set methodically to work widening the salient. The first push of the drive was all but complete. The Germans began a series of violent counterattacks...