Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time was favoring the Germans. Bogged in the mud 30 miles east of Dnepropetrovsk was the crucial drive of Colonel General Nikolai Vatutin's armies, striving to reach the Dnieper and cut off the Germans in the Donets Basin...
...Russians fail to reach their winter objectives, they may have another chance when the ground dries in about two months. But the longer the Russians are delayed the more meaningless any eventual victory in the Donets-Dnieper salient would become. As in Tunisia, the Germans in south Russia-whether they eventually lose the campaign or not-have everything to gain by upsetting the Red Army's timetable. They would be better able to consolidate new positions, train much-needed reserves, replace some of their lost materiel. The next few weeks may well determine the outcome of the Russian...
...Navy announcement that more than 850 lives were lost in the sinking of two North Atlantic passenger-cargo ships had driven home the U-boat peril to the U.S. (TIME, March 1). The horror came home with Signalman Robert Weikart, whose ship was the first to reach the spot where one of the torpedoed vessels went down. Said Weikart...
...discussion of the week never did reach any conclusion. We're still divided into two camps: is the pay that is forfeited, due to AOL, declared as part of the total taxable pay earned or is it not? From the burning arguments exchanged on the subject, you'd think quite a sizeable group had more than an academic interest in the matter...
Idealistic Greeks thought otherwise. To them, human reason, wisdom, was the highest peak that man could reach. But, says Dr. Niebuhr, this belief did not help them to fulfill themselves in the everyday things of life...