Word: threats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rundstedt had to pull men and arms from the north to meet the Remagen threat, yet he still had to man 150 miles of the Rhine and be ready to fight a crossing anywhere. It was this harsh stretching of Rundstedt's already paper-thin manpower that led some experts in Washington to say that Remagen had shortened the war by six to eight weeks...
...north a second threat grew. The old port of Stettin, guarding Berlin's flanks, was crumbling under Russian gunfire and bombs from Allied air fleets, operating in support of the Russian armies. Some 25 Red divisions, backed by four tank and one cavalry corps, had drawn a 50-mile arc around the bays and narrows of the Stettiner Haff and Dammscher See, the outer and inner harbors...
...Grau, he has wandered in Latin America, in unofficial exile. But the Communists did not forget their oldtime friend. Recently, they extracted a promise from Grau not to prosecute Batista if he should return to Cuba. If he does return, the Batista-Communist team can pose a serious threat to Grau's well-meaning regime...
...writer of much threat and some promise, "Professor Sea Gull"--Village barkeeps also call him "The Mongoose"--subsists on doles from his more affluent friends in the literary world. Describing his present economic status, he remarks, "I have slept with Lady Poverty, but I'm conventional and don't consider that an introduction...
...spring of 1940, when chic society disintegrated at the approaching threat of German boots, Trinity's Dean Frederick W. Beekman fled to the U.S. Organist Whipp, left in charge, moved into the deanery to run the church. He held services for the few remaining parishioners (he could not perform Holy Communion), baptized six children, buried 40 Americans, visited and comforted the sick...