Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Completely encircled in the industrial Ruhr-Germany's last important source of coal, power and war machines-were some 100,000 troops of Field Marshal Walter Model's Army Group B. Rapidly pulling out of The Netherlands in a race against the British was Field Marshal Johannes Blaskowitz' Army Group H. The British were well on the road to Bremen, Hamburg and Wilhelmshaven. If they won the race, then Blaskowitz's fight was virtually over...
...Girls (see cut), a lithograph by Margaret Goss of a blank-faced blond girl and a deadpan colored girl sitting side by side on a settee, was the high point in race-consciousness-with-humor...
...screen play, are to be thanked for this. In spite of a painfully whimsical addiction to locutions like "by gum," they write several pieces of conversational love ping-pong and one jagged quarrel which make the average piece of would-be-sure-footed screen dialogue look like a sack-race on snowshoes...
...three-mile stretch of road in Patch's conquered area. There, mangled to shreds, was an enemy supply train of 400 vehicles. In the wreckage lay the carcasses of hundreds of horses, the bodies of scores of Germans who had ridden the wagons in a fatal race against U.S. tanks and trucks. In that incident the Germans' plight was starkly clear: they could not fight long without enough fuel for enough tanks, enough trucks, enough airplanes. The Allies had enough of everything...
...would make "any real child more puzzled than enchanted." In 1932, when Alice invaded the Chinese province of Hunan, the sensitive provincial war lord was even more shocked. "Bears, lions, and other beasts cannot use a human language," he barked, and banned Alice as "an insult to the human race." In 1936, an eminent Austrian psychiatrist recoiled, shuddering, before Alice's "oral sadistic traits of cannibalism" and "continuous threat to the integrity of the body...