Word: pushing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attack began with a tentative push against El Hemeimat, 25 miles south of El Alamein. Early this week it was not clear what Rommel intended or where the main force of his drive would center...
Certainly the onrushing waves of Germans indicated that Bock was still able to be prodigal in his attempt to cut the Volga, to push the Red Army back into Asia, to leave it a weakened mass incapable of engaging the full German military might. If that were accomplished on the southern front, Bock could consider his forces well spent. Then, if an offensive in the north were to close the Arctic ports, Russia would indeed be cut off from her Allies; the Red Army, starved for sufficient supplies, would no longer be an immediate threat to Germanized Europe...
...Sometimes they get a haircut in Joe's tent barbershop, or go to the hospital, which has the only bath and running-water toilets in town. Average Saturday night consumption of 50?-a-bottle beer is 3,500 bottles. At the Inn in Whitehorse the jampacked soldiers sometimes push the 11 o'clock curfew up to 2 a.m., ending with a mouth-organ duet and fine, boozy soldier harmony. Checks are cashed at the only bank for 460 miles around-the same one in which Poetaster Robert Service clerked in the gold-rush days...
Last week, defiant of military logic, the Royal Navy made another try. Not since last June, when Axis raiders unmercifully pounded a fleet of slow-moving Allied cargo vessels in the western Mediterranean, have the United Nations tried to push another convoy through that hazardous sea. The Axis, entrenched along the shores where the sea funnels into the 100-mile-wide straits south of Sicily, boasted that it could not be done...
...strategy of the British Raj was plainly to strangle what it called "open rebellion" before the rebellion could get organized. The British hoped to quell the riots in a few days, expected support from Communists, Untouchables, Moslems. Their program was ready for the push of a button. During the week the Viceroy's Council met almost daily instead of once a week. It was a period of great decision for the eleven Indians on the 15-man council. If they approved the arrest of Gandhi, it meant that their decision would haunt Indian politics for decades. It would...