Word: retreats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wednesday I felt as though I were wallowing in a puddle in Portal 15, Section C of the Yale Bowl, and in a few minutes the Harvard team would run onto the field across the way, take a good look at the Eli eleven, and beat a hasty retreat to Cambridge...
...Nazi regime's favor are iron control of the population, the instinct for survival, a strong and yet unbroken Army, the rich loot plundered from Europe since 1939. Yet much of that loot has been expended on war, the Army is now in retreat, the home controls cannot survive a complete military disaster...
...mining had reached a new peak of thoroughness. Communications behind the enemy front, left usable by Allied air attack, were being systematically destroyed. A report from Allied headquarters noted that the Nazis in the east had blown up 13 roads and rail bridges, leaving a minimum passage for retreat, along the Adriatic coast to Pescara, 40 miles ahead of the Eighth Army...
...these 14 words, the German Command last week admitted a grave defeat, the possibility of a graver disaster. The Dnieper line, on which Hitler had ordered his army to stand or die, was pierced. Now the Germans faced a long and costly retreat, the calamitous political echoes of defeat...
...Book. Readers of Retreat from Rostov found Novelist Hughes's mid-Oklahoma notion of Russia and the war a view of uninhibited proportions. The novel was a Russian rodeo of heroes, heroines, Nazi villains, Don Cossacks, foreign correspondents, soldiers, civilians, enough snow to bury an army, enough melodrama to burn out every fuse in Hollywood...