Word: reared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week on the Stalingrad front, the Russians scored their biggest victory in nearly a year. In its immediate scope and consequences, the victory was "local"-the culmination of a prolonged, hitherto indecisive effort to relieve Stalingrad itself by blows at the Germans' flanks and rear, between the Volga and the Don. But its full possibilities, if realized-which they are still to be-might be immense. Disrupting Germany's winter line in the south, blocking the diversion of Nazi forces to the Mediterranean, perhaps cutting off the Germans in the Caucasus, were among the conceivable consequences...
...unknown factor was the true nature of the Germans' winter plans. If, for example, they had deliberately withdrawn troops from Stalingrad's rear toward the Don and prepared for a stand there, the Russian advances might not have been a complete shock to Hitler. The facts remained that the Red Army had shown its best offensive generalship to date, that it had punctured the Germans' Don-Volga line, and that the battle was not yet over...
...Army carried the attack. First the U.S. forces had moved into Algeria and French Morocco with the help of the R.A.F. and Royal Navy. During the initial landings the First Army remained offshore in a vast convoy, landed near the Tunisian border only when U.S. forces had secured the rear in Algeria and had solved the first, delicate problems of relations with the French...
...task force of cruisers and destroyers under Rear Admiral Daniel J. Callaghan drove in on the Jap bombardment group. The U.S. flagship was the heavy cruiser San Francisco, the afterpart of whose superstructure had been messed up a bit by the crash of a Jap torpedo pilot the day before. Behind her steamed a column of heavy and light cruisers. Destroyers flanked the line of battle...
...times the Japs had been hit, while reinforcing the Solomons, they had been hit and run from. But this time there was a new spirit in the U.S. task forces. The Americans came in slugging again and yet again. Another U.S. unit under Rear Admiral Norman Scott took part. He, too, was killed...