Word: retreats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cold of winter hit his soldiers and the Russians counterattacked. By the end of last week, Bock's northern army was driven back, his southern army was withdrawing rapidly under ferocious hammering. According to the Russians, 51 divisions had been swept into retreat, leaving behind 1,434 tanks, 5,416 trucks, 575 field guns, 339 trench mortars, 869 machine guns. On the defensive arc of the capital, 400 villages and towns had been recaptured in a week. Since Nov. 16, said the Russians, 85,000 Germans had been killed...
...hammer stroke delivered on the nose of the Orel-Yelets-Kursk Salient. Smashed for the winter was the threat it offered to Moscow's communications with the coal of the Donets basin and the troops that defended it. The Soviet cavalry was harassing the Germans in retreat...
...went on in other countries. So Ludendorff in 1917 had withdrawn from a vast energy-consuming salient, prepared lines in his rear, come back with a climactic German effort in the spring of 1918. But at the very least this was a Russian success, for the German retreat was costly...
...early this week to say exactly where Cunningham failed or whether it was really he who really failed. Presumably his general and local tactics had failed in battle. It was General Auchinleck's plan to have the Germans cut off from their supplies, retreat, then destroy them...
...atavistic hints and murmurs which carry men far back into their brute heritage. When he uses such phrases as "the deep black water of the human spirit" he sounds like D.H. Lawrence, as he does in his subhuman enchantments. Yet Lawrence's animal-love was a negation, a retreat from human modes of thinking and acting; Steinbeck's is an inclusion. Steinbeck also enjoys the syllogisms of philosophers and the constructions of theoretical physicists-it is all right, all part of life...