Word: thrust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Atmospheric Conditions. The Navy, for that matter, had been an experiment with Miss Mac. As she once declared, possibly with tongue in cheek, "Life in the Navy has taken me out of the cloister in which a woman was unaware of limitations on her freedom or individuality, and has thrust me into the big world where women are women and men are men." She had emerged into what she called "this bifurcated society" like a discoverer and without even the seafaring background of Miss Reynard, whose grandfather had been the captain of a whaling ship...
...Berlin. The Germans had time to do something: build a deep line of entrenchments and "kettles" (Red Army slang for German "hedgehogs") back of the Oder and Neisse Rivers, at which the Russians had halted. The Germans could do something else: concentrate against Zhukov's most threatening thrust, aimed at Stettin. They had good kettles in the Stargard area...
...Nazi defense seemed feeble. Not until 19 hours after the first U.S. crossings did the Germans counterattack anywhere. Then they put on six attacks against the Ninth, of which the heaviest-a thrust by 30 or 40 tanks supported by self-propelled guns-was beaten off at Boslar. The German prisoners were a mixture: good soldiers in their 205, boys of 15 and 16, railroad battalions, Volksstürmer, air force ground personnel. On the whole, they were far from first-rate troops...
...long, narrow spearhead that Marshal Georgi K. Zhukov had thrust toward Berlin broadened out. While Zhukov paused, Marshal Ivan S. Konev hammered into line on his left. The Red armies were linked along the east bank of the Oder, their flanks more secure...
Zhukov was in position for the thrust. He had driven across the Oder, had chosen the roads and flat fields from Küstrin, Frankfurt and Fürstenberg (see map) over which to hurtle his huge Stalin tanks. He had the power: the Oder crossings and envelopment of his three chosen points proved that his 275-mile advance had not exhausted its momentum...