Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first week of the great push, five major Nazi strongholds fell: after Vitebsk (which had withstood two fierce Red assaults in the past year), Orsha, Mogilev, Bobruisk, Zhlobin. Nothing like this, in so short a time, had ever happened to the Wehrmacht before...
...natural desire to "cleanse" the last Russian soil of the enemy, their White Russia drive seemed calculated to bring that front into line with the more advanced southern sector, which would then have its right flank secured for a sweep across south Poland to Germany. Last week's push might also be the start of a flank envelopment which might reach for Koenigsberg and cut off all the Nazi hordes to the north...
Before the last push began, the German positions were methodically bombed for 80 minutes. A group of bombers attacked every five minutes by the clock. Between assaults, fighter-bombers swooped in to knock out pinpoint targets. Nazi fighters jumped the first group of bombers. They were lumped themselves by escort fighters, and for 15 minutes the air was full of swirling dogfights. Then the Nazi ships fled, and stayed away...
...resulted in "most urgent pleas" from U.S. generals for immediate shipments "above and beyond all previous estimates. It will be necessary to ship up to 50% more fuel than previously estimated for consumption in some of the more active theaters in the next two or three months. . . . Please push as hard as you possibly...
Weather and History. Now that the big push is on, Eisenhower will press it forward with full faith in his commanders and his troops, whom he considers the best any commander ever had. With them as his counsel and expert witnesses, he now stands before the bar of history. The progress of the just-begun campaign will decide his case...