Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...such a cost had Marshal von Bock thrust into the Caucasus and heaved his tank-bristling lines to the Don bend where, with seemingly inexhaustible waves of men and weapons, he was making his greatest bid for a breakthrough to Stalingrad and the Volga. At such a cost had Marshal Timoshenko kept his Red Army virtually intact, with supply lines still open to the Caucasus oilfields and munitions centers to the east. Whether the awful costs had been worth it to either, whether they could afford such expenditure of human life and weapons would be tallied only after the battle...
From headquarters aboard his destroyer surrounded by the complexity of modern warfare, General Roberts watched the battle's progress, directed land, sea and sky operations by radio. Three aides listened with earphones, relayed his orders to warships, to tank drivers pounding along Dieppe's beach, to Spitfire pilots high in the summer sky, to the air command 77 miles away in England, upon whom he depended for air reinforcement...
Disney himself makes no such claims. All he is trying to do is tell a clear, simple story, lightened by touches of amusement. Already produced or in the Disney works are films on such diverse subjects as teaching flush riveting to workers, Basic English (TIME, June 15), anti-tank gunnery, prostitution, food, Nazi ideology, malaria, good neighbors. He is making some 20 instruction films for the Navy; for the Army he has turned out a series of films on airplane identification, is preparing another on the Nazi invasion of Poland. For fun and good neighborliness he is turning out twelve...
From southern Russia the news was distressingly parallel to that from France in 1940. In six weeks the Germans had plunged 300 miles deeper into the country. Tank columns concentrated in Schwerpunke ("thrust points") where enemy lines were weakest, broke through, then mushroomed out behind them. Mechanized infantry rushed through tank-opened gaps. Dive-bombers roared overhead...
...Russians beat back both arms of the pincers drive on Stalingrad, in dustrial capital of the Lower Volga, in ferocious tank battles, and they claimed to have boxed off one big German armored force in theat sector, but they admitted a steady retreat along the Southwest end of the Caucasus line...