Word: soils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tanks, mobile guns, trucks rolled forward again, across the flatlands and icebound marshes. With blank eyes the men watched the burning enemy tanks, the sidings lined with freight cars from France, Poland, Belgium, Holland, the black-and-yellow posts marked Deutschland, planted on Russian soil by the confident Wehrmacht. With blank eyes they saw Nazi posters on charred village walls: an SS soldier hugging a husky Ukrainian woman, with happy children and goats playing in the background. They had seen such women swing from German gallows, had seen the bullet-holed bodies of such children...
Never had the Red Army seemed so near to sweeping the invaders from Soviet soil. In Berlin's bomb-scarred Foreign Office a gloomy spokesman told Swedish journalists that the Russians' third winter offensive had achieved a "very deep penetration." A Nazi official explained: the German High Command "does not intend to keep Russian territory occupied only for reasons of prestige. . . . Retreat from Russian soil . . . would be a secondary question compared to whether the front had been broken along the entire line...
...women are ready to point out that Russia's war is on her own soil, that British homes have been bombed; if U.S. women had to defend their homes they would join just as valorously; if they could even take a more active part in the war, they would join...
...spent well over a billion dollars and states have spent hundreds of millions more on dams, levees and river channel dredging. But it has all been of doubtful avail: last spring one of the most destructive floods in U.S. history devastated parts of Arkansas and Oklahoma. Many engineers and soil conservationists now believe that the attempt to control the Mississippi and tributaries by big dams is futile. They favor stopping floods at their source by means of many small catch basins in the feeder streams. Because the Jackson model includes all the sources of the Mississippi instead of only...
Telling his people that no war lasts forever, Hitler reminded them that after four years of fighting the Reich had not lost "one square kilometer of soil." The year ended had been one of heavy reverses: the Russian offensive, the loss of Africa, the downfall of Il Duce, the rise of Tito; the year beginning, he grimly warned, would see the war's crisis. He said that German preparation to meet the Allied invasion had gone forward on "a scale that will probably surprise our enemies more than their landing will surprise us." The Russian front, he admitted...