Word: swathe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Starting fortnight ago, this "Big Push" cut a swath nearly ten miles wide and ten miles deep into Rightist positions west of Madrid (TIME, July 19). By last week the Rightists had had to halt their own offensive against Santander on the North in order to release enough troops and planes to check the Leftist drive. They had it retarded after nine days...
General Franco's G.H.Q. tersely admitted that Madrid General Miaja was making "the most violent drive the enemy has ever attempted." According to the Leftists their advance swept westward of Madrid in a swath ten miles wide and ten miles deep. They claimed to have taken six strategic towns, including Brunete, while according to the Rightists this objective was never quite reached. On the northwest side of Madrid the Rightists remained entrenched in suburban University City, their "foot in Madrid's door." After five days of what all agreed had been some of the hardest troop fighting...
...Meanwhile at Bilbao and in the 15-mile swath of Rightist advance last week the Leftists had lost the richest iron mines, the largest smelters and steel mills and some of the finest munitions plants in all Spain. As any sophisticate of the armament business would expect, correspondents found that the manufacture of projectiles had not even been interrupted. The whirling lathes whined on, turning out gleaming 75-millimetre shells which would now be paid for by the Rightists, whereas a few days before they had been paid for by Leftists. Not only did Rightists attacking planes never bomb these...
Over the jagged rim of the Atlas Mountains, which cut diagonally across the bulge of northwestern Africa, live the Tuaregs, fiercest of North African tribesmen. Known as the Blue Men, the Tuaregs swath their bodies in robes of cheap indigo-dyed cotton that dyes their skins a permanent blue color...
...Italian dead that burial squads have not yet reached. Tank tracks lead to where they died, not as cowards but defending skillfully constructed machine-gun and automatic-rifle positions, where the tanks found them and where they still lie. The track of a tropical hurricane leaves a capricious swath of complete destruction, but the two parallel grooves the tank leaves in the red mud lead to scenes of planned death worse than any hurricane leaves...