Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Attempting to reach the Don at Letskaya, the Germans tried to crack Russian defenses with revival of svinya (pig), a device used centuries ago by the Teutonic knights. They formed a triangle of several score tanks, filled the center with infantry, then rammed the Soviet line, hoping that the infantrymen could mushroom out behind the lines after a breakthrough. The Russians were not caught napping. They broke the triangle and mauled the hapless foot soldiers. But still the Germans pushed...
Kenny Cure. The patients were placed flat on their backs on a firm mattress which did not quite reach to the footboard of the bed. Their feet, with heels and toes stretching beyond the mattress, were set squarely against the footboard (so that the children could exercise, without effort, the muscular reflexes used for standing up). Their arms were kept at their sides, their knees straight. No splints or casts were used. Hot packs, made of pieces of blankets wrung out of boiling water, were laid on each child's twitching limbs, changed every two hours-in serious cases...
...sculptor is selected and his final design approved, Bishop Noll will have to solve at least one more problem before he can see his statue completed: where to find enough bronze to cast it. But the Bishop is somewhat comforted by the thought that the plaster figure will not reach the casting stage until...
...case of the People v. DeWitt might presently reach Congress in the shape of a petition demanding redress. Months of controversy had climaxed in a set of high crime & misdemeanor charges...
...committee promptly turned down the first two. To bring in other revenue to reach his goal of $8.7 billion, Henry Morgenthau asked for additional increases in corporation, estate and gift taxes, new excise levies, a little lowering of the income-tax exemptions...