Word: stretches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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South of Warsaw, Marshal Rokossovsky's armies swarmed to the Vistula, cleared a 60-mile stretch of the east bank, paused while their artillery poured hell into the German positions on the other side. Here the river was 600 feet wide, but no river had held up the Red engineers very long...
...north, Marshal Govorov woke up the sector above Lake Peipus with an attack which overran Narva, which the Germans had held since Govorov drove them back from Leningrad. This action extended the active front to a reach of 800 miles from the Carpathians to the Gulf of Finland. The stretch had been excruciating for the Germans. It was possible that the Soviet high command had not originally intended to stretch it so fast, to keep so much of it in motion at one time, but-always quick to exploit an unexpected weakness-had been encouraged...
There was another need before the final drive on Japan was begun: the ground forces had to have room to stretch themselves. General Douglas MacArthur, in the Southwest Pacific, was in the best position for such a move, and inching closer to the takeoff point. From westernmost New Guinea to Halmahera was an easy distance (200 miles) by the new U.S. Pacific standards; from Halmahera it is another short hop (400 miles) to Mindanao in the Philippines...
...their extreme clarity; 2)their naturalness, which is the result of letting battle sounds speak pretty much for themselves. Says Lieut. Hays: "I don't believe that war is any place for histrionics. I don't believe in yelling 'here they're coming down the stretch...
...today shows Lowell tangling with the NROTC and Adams opposing Company E. On Monday Companies A and E will meet while Lowell will attempt to lengthen its lead in a game with Company C. At that point the season will be half over and all teams will begin their stretch drive for the championship. The last games of the season are to be played on August...