Word: retreats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Elastic defense can be masterful, as Rommel's retreat to Tunisia was, or merely chaotic. The Russians had two chances of making it chaotic-they could drive south through Stalin to the Sea of Azov, pocketing the routed defenders of Rostov, and west from Lozovaya to the Dnieper bend at Dniepropetrovsk, cutting the Caucasian remnant and Crimean garrisons off from convenient retreat by rail or good roads...
According to Domei's Malayan correspondent: Cherry trees transplanted ten years ago from Japan to a cool retreat near Singapore never bloomed in the shadow of the Union Jack. But this year, promptly on Kigensetsu (Japanese Empire Day) all the little cherry trees burst into bloom. The natives were said to be impressed...
...abandon her house, enter a Paris home for the aged. Only once again did the world hear of her. That was on May 31, 1935, when 67-year-old Avril emerged to dance once more at a Toulouse-Lautrec ball. Wrote the old lady in 1937: "In this retreat I have nothing to keep me company but my precious memories...
...broadcasts and they have learned to read between the lines of their communiques. When the German press reported that somebody had unsuccessfully tried to explode the Rhine bridge to Basel in northwest Switzerland, Rhinelanders cracked: "It must be the Russian Partisans trying to cut off the Wehrmacht's retreat...
...these dangers are less than those that would result from a post-war isolationist reaction. This possibility cannot be permitted. The Wadsworth Bill should be passed as necessary insurance against any effort to retreat again from the responsibility of maintaining collective security. But with its passage must come the sober realization that its misrepresentation after the war could result in a completely undesirable over-emphasis of our armed forces, and those objectives which are accomplished through the use of armed force. Congress is playing with fire, and it must not be allowed to burn out of bounds...