Word: swingful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were up to Hodges. When Hodges took over, the First had two complicated plans to work out : 1 ) to slug in and carve a corridor for Patton's tanks to slip through, then hold the German counterattacks and keep the corridor open; 2) using its own armor, to swing a right hook to form the first trap for the German Seventh Army (TIME, Aug. 28). Hodges ran off these plans without raising his voice and with rare recourse to his spare vocabulary of profanity...
...Nish. Other Soviet divisions were busy in Yugoslavia. A quick march westward from Rumania took them to the outskirts of Belgrade. Joining up with Marshal Tito's Partisans, they began their attack on the capital. The Belgrade attack appeared to be part of the Hungary operation, and the swing northward to Germany's side door. Another drive toward Nish, an important position on the Athens-Belgrade railroad, seemed designed to cut off the last Germans in Yugoslavia and Greece. Malinovsky was liquidating the Germans' Balkan venture, with yeoman help from Tito's Partisans and the British...
...times. They were joined often enough by Justices Murphy and Rutledge so that these four formed a bloc, usually ideologically to the left. The bloc on the right had Justices Roberts and Frankfurter as leaders, often joined by Chief Justice Stone and Reed. Justice Jackson was now the "swing man"-as Chief Justice Hughes used to be among the Nine Old Men-joining the right more often than the left...
...short, the Germans were badly cheated at the price they paid. And now they continued to pay for their miscalculation, for Eisenhower was two jumps ahead of their timetable. Since Lieut. General George S. Patton's swing through Normandy, they had never been ready for the next blow...
...well aware that internal politics are directly connected with foreign policy. Ever since liberation the French have been bursting spontaneously into the Marseillaise on streets and public squares. De Gaulle proposed that France should sing its national anthem on a wider stage to a bigger audience. On a swing around France last week he raised the question of France's role in Europe's affairs. In Lyons he said: France must be great. "She must be able to tell her friends: 'I am one of you, I am among the victors as you are. I have well...