Word: reveal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...until last week did the Russians reveal how nearly the German Sixth Army had come to capturing Stalingrad. In September the Germans actually occupied the central part of the city. Concentrating their power in the industrial districts, they then stormed into the Stalingrad tank factory, but failed to drive on to the Volga. Often the opposing lines were only 15 yards apart. Most of the fighting was done with hand grenades, one Russian division using more than 100,000 in a single month's fighting...
...schools. That decision was a sudden shift from an outstanding ten-year record of liberality in civil-liberties cases. Then, a year later, three members of the majority recanted publicly, stating that they had been in error in the original decision. Justices Black, Douglas, and Murphy did not, however, reveal their reasons for voting with the majority...
...Cahal's letter on British candor (TIME, Dec. 7) and especially TIME's editorial comment thereon seem to reveal confused thinking on that most frequent source of American confusion, India. Mr. Cahal asks where do Mr. Churchill's characteristically candid words (on the "liquidation" of the British Empire) leave India, and TIME, quoting the so-called "Churchill clause" in the Atlantic Charter, opines "Mr. Churchill evidently considers India 'an existing obligation...
...search of Eliot didn't reveal the promiser, although suspicion pointed to several people of the sort that have the destiny of trees at their command. No one even knew who had sent for it, but it must have ben a potent promise. You have to be pretty sure of yourself to hire a truck...
Showing a considerable improvement over last year's teams, the House sport squads have already developed and competed enough in the two short weeks since game began to reveal the strength of the different Houses...