Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus for the immediate future the attackers faced the prospect of crossing a bridgeless river. The deep, swift-running Rhine was 380 yards wide at Cologne, 450 at Duisburg. Months ago Eisenhower had said that for the Germans to retreat across a bridgeless Rhine would be almost a "naval operation." It would be no less so for the Allies to advance across it. Time would be needed to bring up huge quantities of assault boats, pontoons, bridging materials - not to mention the artillery necessary to cover a crossing in real force. In the midst of ebullient talk about crossing immediately...
...have won a most important campaign, crashing 20-plus miles straight through the vaunted German defenses to reach the Rhine in seven swift days. What has been the outstanding characteristic of that resistance? Every day experts have been forced to admit that the resistance was "light" or at most "light to moderate." We have captured and will capture some of the Germans' most historic and strategically important towns, yet we cannot honestly claim to have crushed any important German army in the field...
With lightning-swift strokes, General Douglas MacArthur was winning back the Philippines. Warships churned the waters between the islands, rushing to batter open the way for more, and still more, landings...
...King & His Duty. Ibn Saud is a strict adherent of the fanatically strict Wahabi sect of Islam. He neither practices nor permits smoking, drinking, or dancing. His justice is swift and sure: thieves have their hands chopped off; murderers, their heads...
...great offensive across the Roer, scheduled for Feb. 10, had been postponed when the Germans loosed a flood from the dams in the Roer headwaters. Last week the river was falling, but it was still swift and turbulent and several feet above the normal level. At Düren it was 50 to 60 yards wide, and the current was running at six to seven miles an hour...