Word: resistant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Over the Dnestr bridge and down from Galicia, the Red Army poured on schedule.It moved so fast that it soon caught up with retreating Rumanian soldiers. Rumanians who stopped to argue were shot. While King Carol ordered full mobilization to resist a Hungarian threat to his western frontier, Bucharest buzzed with rumors that the Red Army had overstepped its mark and was pouring into Old Rumania. Baby tanks crawled out of pregnant Red Army planes at Reni on the Danube, overcame the Rumanian garrison there before it could unstack its arms.* Presently, isolated units of the Rumanian Army began...
...Craigie. He demanded that British authorities in Burma emulate the discretion of their Indo-Chinese neighbors by stopping munitions traffic. The British Government "found it difficult to make a prompt reply." By way of pressure, Japanese troops formed a tight landward ring around Hong Kong. The British prepared to resist. Hong Kong officials, archives and non-combatants were evacuated to Singapore and Manila...
Like an eel chopped to pieces, fragments of the French Army continued to wriggle and resist all across France last week even after the nation's surrender was signed and sealed in a railroad car at Compiegne (see p. 20). In hate and despair many a Frenchman threw his life away-taking a German or so with him-a week after the war had been lost...
...Failure of the Mannerheim fortifications to resist artillery fire...
...chance of surviving it appeared to be a.fcout one in five. In spite of the mag-nit' j and complexity of action. Generalissimo Weygand trained his guns calmly, recoiled only foot by foot, called upon his men to resist in the great French tradition...