Word: thrust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sweeps that shot across the 100-mile base of Brittany to the Bay of Biscay in four days; a 138-mile thrust westward that reached into the tip of the Breton peninsula. Brittany was cut off, then cut in two from...
Eastward. But the thrust into France was the big battle for which Omar Bradley's Brittany campaign was the preparation. The world would soon see how the Allied ground commander in France, General Sir Bernard Montgomery, would fit the campaign into his strategic pattern...
...said dates out to only Mid-Off's all will be fine. Then the ladies behind the counter--Julia, Margaret, and Sally in particular--feted one of our men by a little birthday party very recently. And the Food. The other morning saw the worst form of torture possible thrust upon us as we hungrily passed along the line to find for cereal only one choice, All-Bran...
...Pockets. General Bagramian, Armenian-born, thrust a long salient into Lithuania. At the tip of it he occupied
That night, as Senator Jackson prepared to read the President's letter, CBS Announcer John ("Charley") Daly popped the hidden mike out of its bag, spoke pre arranged cue words into it ("I want air"), and thrust it in front of the Senator...