Word: smashes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Roer where the guns of Lieut. Gen. William Hood Simpson's Ninth Army were already drumming a prelude to battles to come. Six new armored divisions, four new infantry divisions had suddenly appeared in this area, said the Nazi radio. The Allies, it added, were preparing for a smash across the Cologne plain to the Rhine...
...this week, as you read in TIME about the battle of the Bulge and the Red Army's smash across Poland, about the bombings of Tokyo and the march on Manila, you might like to know about some of the TIME men who have come home from the wars to get their fresh-from-the-front knowledge of the news into TIME...
...each race. On trips, he often carried bread and honey sandwiches in a paper bag. His awkward running style - arms thrashing like windmills - outraged the copybook but set a world's indoor mile record of 4:06.4. Last week, just after his coach predicted that he would soon smash that record by as much as two seconds, Dodds said he was through with track forever - he had received the Call to begin full-time gospel work...
Along every mile of the 25-mile sector he had chosen to smash, Marshal Konev had lined 300 to 400 guns-long-barreled giants, stubby, deep-throated howitzers, crackling light fieldpieces. On row upon row of U.S.-made trucks were batteries of Katushas, the rocket-projecting pride of Soviet artillerymen...
...bulge northwest of Saint-Vith. The enemy reaction was instant and furious : the Yanks were rocked back by counterattacks with infantry and tanks. But U.S. troops took the blow, and shoved forward again. The weather cleared at last, and a huge swarm of Allied fighter bombers set out to smash the enemy columns on the roads. It was good hunting, though probably too late to inflict more than superficial wounds. Even when the Yanks cut the main highway between Houffalize and Saint-Vith, the Germans still had a net of secondary roads to move on. Rundstedt seemed in good shape...