Word: retreats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once again the red cannon rolled. They boomed for countless men grey from the foe. In Berlin Nazi spokesmen babbled of "evading actions" and "elastic defense." But the grim face of the war map uttered the word they would not: retreat. All along the 700-mile fluid front, from the forests of Smolensk to the Sea of Azov, the Wehrmacht was falling back in what might yet be its worst defeat. Nazi bastions which a month ago were safely in the rear were now in peril. Taganrog, Yelnya, Sumy and Konotop had fallen. Smolensk, Poltava, Mariupol and Stalino (which Berlin...
...grinder) concept has dominated Soviet military thought since 1941, has bled Germany white of her young manhood. Sokolovsky's antidote for Blitzkrieg is slow, continuous grinding, a Verdun multiplied a hundredfold. The advance on Smolensk delights him; only two years ago he had trod this very road in retreat...
...golden stream will dry up. Negro workers now making about $3 a day will worry about unemployment. Bermuda's ruling merchants are already planning cushioning measures to carry them from wartime boom to peacetime security. There is serious talk of changing Bermuda from a millionaires' retreat to a popular, popular-priced Atlantic resort for the masses...
...base at Voroshilovgrad, Russia's Pittsburgh, against the eastern bottom of the German pocket. Here, this week, the Germans abandoned Taganrog, which survived the great Red offensive of last winter. In this pocket, too, Soviet flyers saw the Nazis blow up dumps and defense-a telltale of retreat...
...objective of the air-and-sea assault seemed clear: 1) to harry the likely retreat of the Germans to a line in north ern Italy; 2) to soften the way for another and greater Allied invasion...