Word: threats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Objectives. The Russian push toward Bryansk, if successful, would open the path to Smolensk as well as yield the Russians control over the six main rail roads radiating from Bryansk. The pincers movement converging on Kharkov threat ens the German-occupied Donets basin, most valuable prize of the Nazis in Russia...
...started as a legionnaire. ... He had risen from the ranks, like the great Marshals of the First Empire." His enemies whispered that he aimed to depose Maximilian and get the throne of Mexico for himself. But when Lee surrendered at Appomattox and the danger of a U.S. threat from the north began to haunt Napoleon III, Bazaine's days in Mexico were over. The French sailed home...
...Served notice on John L. Lewis that he intends to return the coal mines to their owners as soon as normal production is restored, despite the union leader's threat that such action means another strike...
...Mediterranean was a theater of great preparation and great Allied threat. It was also an area of growing Axis strength. This week the New York Times's well-informed analyst, Hanson W. Baldwin, reported that the Germans recently reversed an earlier decision to leave Italy and its southern islands to the Italians, and now have strong forces there. Winston Churchill said: "Very probably there will be heavy fighting in the Mediterranean and elsewhere before the leaves of autumn fall." Press accounts paid less attention to the words which immediately preceded that prediction...
...choice but to spend their planes and pilots. Rather than attempt a prodigious expedition against Truk, the Air Forces and the Navy may prefer to deal with the Japanese fleet at sea-once the Allies penetrated the periphery, the Japanese Navy would have little choice but to challenge the threat...