Word: stabs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Earlier reports acknowledging a deterioration in the Stalingrad front revealed that a German flank thrust some 100 miles to the south had peneirated the Kahmyk stoppes. It posed the potential threat of a drive against the left wing of the Stalingrad Army or a stab at Astrakhan, at the mouth of the Volga, less than 200 miles distant...
...worked. Lament hit the ceiling: "If you run those articles you will be raising more hell than any bunch of people in the city of Seattle. . . . Your whole God-damned bunch ought to be ashamed of yourselves. You are giving the company, the men and the war effort a stab in the back. How in the hell can you call yourselves Americans? . . . How the hell do you suppose the boys overseas will feel...
...Crete might also be the Allied target. Else it will almost certainly be the base for a German stab...
...these Japanese moves, turned their eyes to the north. Reports came of new activity along the Siberian border. The Japs, they calculated, intended to turn their backs on China for a while to fight another war. The Chinese also looked to the south. The Japs, they calculated, intended to stab at China's soft underside through Yunnan and Kwangsi Provinces...
Rundstedt announced that he was ill and retired. He returned to service only when the invasion of Poland was in the planning. It was the kind of war the Junkers love because it was to be a swift stab without warning, crushing, yet almost daintily precise...