Word: retreated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...foreign correspondent of the Chicago Daily News, George Weller watched the British retreat from Greece in 1941. When the British returned in 1944, so did Weller; like many another correspondent, he developed a deep affection for the country. The Crack in the Column, an admirably objective novel beginning in the days of the Nazi occupation and ending with the outbreak of civil war, is the product of George Weller's fondness for Greece and its hard-pressed people...
...phrases had crept into his speech, and his conversation had grown self-conscious and artificial. But he was principally separated from the people around him because he no longer shared their defeat or their hopes, the undercurrent of panic, their confusion, their bitterness, or their dull conviction that the retreat of the German army would be stopped...
Five Percent? There were signs last week that Britain's Labor leaders were shedding their no longer very rosy illusions. With a general election ahead, it would not be easy for Prime Minister Clement Attlee to call for a temporary retreat in the drive to establish the welfare state. But such a retreat was plainly under...
...three-pronged attack, Greek government troops had shattered Communist forces in the Grammos region and had captured 8,000-ft. Mt. Grammos, long a formidable guerrilla stronghold. Government artillery commanded the whole northern ridge. All that remained, announced Athens, was to cut off the rebels' line of retreat to the Albanian border...
...Grammos. Government generals sent the first units of their 65,000 U.S.-equipped troops into the Grammos sector, where the guerrillas had been expecting the main push. Five days later the government's main forces struck at Vitsi, split the Communist positions and cut off their westward retreat routes to Albania...