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...that the Russians were on the edge of the Soviets' Pittsburgh -Kharkov -by saying that the city had been under heavy artillery fire. Bald Marshal Semion Timoshenko was within 20 miles of Dniepropetrovsk and its wrecked power dam, bulling his way ahead at the tip of a sharp salient...
...hint of the success which he enjoys in his specialties is given by such salient facts as those showing that he has tied the world's record in the 100 yard free style at 51 seconds, swum the 220 in two minutes and nine seconds, which is excellent time in any man's league, and has been anchor man on a 400 yard relay team which is expected to break the world's record in the Eastern Intercollegiates, if not before...
...when war came at last, the U.S. suddenly realized that its vast new industry had not prepared it for war at all. It was still just another industry, a peripheral hubbub, an invasion of the economy whose deepest salient was 17%. When it entered the war the U.S. still had an economy. It did not have what its enemies have: a total war machine...
...other sectors the Red Army was also surging forward. No less important strategically, if less of a boost to morale than the Moscow success, was the 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...
...prepared in their rear, stretching perhaps from the Valdai hills in the north to the vicinity of Kharkov in the Ukraine. Here they might rest through the frightening winter cold while the war 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 So Ludendorff in 1917 had withdrawn from a vast energy-consuming salient, prepared lines in his rear, come back with a climactic German effort in the spring of 1918.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...