Word: pushing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Philippines, the Japanese made a new landing on the Japanese-infested southern island of Mindanao, appeared ready to make their big push on the main island of Luzon...
...Philippines the Japanese, with the initiative still in their chubby hands, appeared to be starting their big push this week. Off Lingayen Gulf, 120 miles northwest of Manila, the U.S. forces reported sighting a flotilla of 80 enemy transports, announced that the major drive had begun. General Douglas MacArthur had long anticipated a heavy attack at Lingayen. An earlier thrust, in which the Japanese tried to put down troops from 154 motorboats, had been beaten off by a Philippine division which did not let a single Jap soldier reach shore alive. But more attempts were bound to come...
...sure the victim gets plenty! If a crowd has gathered, pick two big men to push them back...
Because the success of the next push-to Dérna or Bengazi-will directly reflect Ritchie's ability, it will be the high spot of his career, and of the offensive. Neil Ritchie is only 44. If only because of his youth, he may do better than Cunningham, who is ten years his senior. But his career, from subaltern in the Black Watch at 17 to Major General at 43, has been almost too formal to promise the flashes of unorthodoxy which usually herald great commanders...
...time to meet the Germans coming in, narrowly missed a grenading by an advance Nazi motorcycle squad, and with a U.S. military attaché drove upstream through the Panzer army to Belgrade. His further progress eastward included a stop in Ankara, a hitch in Syria on the British push into that hellish terrain, and the job of covering the Cretan campaign from Cairo...