Word: snakedance
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Now spearheads on the west bank could reach farther. Konev columns snaked around Breslau, sealed off Silesia's largest city, locked up its garrison. Red Army Tommy gunners broke into the town, began a grim house-to-house fight.
British columns were winding deeper into Burma, strangling Japanese retreat lines, coiling around strong points. They worked their way down the coast of the Bay of Bengal, snaked along the Irrawaddy River, reached out for the gleaming pagodas of Mandalay.
On the third day of Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt's surprise offensive, fog lay like a folded shroud over the wooded hills and rocky fields of southeastern Belgium. Near Stavelot a large German armored task force of tanks, tank destroyers, self-propelled guns and trucks snaked northward. Its...
The sturdy Dutch inhabitants of Walcheren Island did not want to leave their flooded homes. The grey sea had snaked through Walcheren's bomb-breached dikes, coiled around hamlets and towns, drowned their handsome black-&-white Friesian Holland cattle. It had also brought salty death to orchards, pastures, grain...
But could the tide be rolled back in time to save Kweiyang, now the last forward U.S. air base? By this week the Japs had snaked in past Pachai, only 65 miles east of Kweiyang, apparently had bypassed the Chinese units set out for distant defense of the city'...