Word: thrust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rommel's thrust may seriously upset all of Eisenhower's plans. The capture of Gafsa would mean the loss of the Allies' most important central Tunisian base. If Rommel (variously reported wounded and nearly captured) widens his assault, he will seriously disrupt Allied communication lines. The decision might be delayed even beyond the first weeks of summer, the time now apparently set for victory and a push toward southern Europe...
Kursk Captured. Farther north, Colonel General Filip I. Golikov's forces, completing a 125-mile thrust on skis and motorized sleds, captured Kursk, one of the main pivots of the German line in south Russia. This brilliant advance not only brought the Russians past the line from which the Germans began their 1941 offensive, but it cut Kharkov off from all its northern Nazi supply bases. The fall of Kursk also enables Colonel General Golikov's armies to swing south and close on Kharkov itself...
...structure often too loose, its dialogue often too literary, The Patriots does not so much achieve drama as have drama thrust upon it. Its dead patriots do not live again. But the issues they fought over still have force, and the playwright, at moments, gives them eloquence...
...pinion position at Rostov. The fall of Salsk and Armavir gave the Red Army a tighter hold upon the railways of the Caucasus, increased the prospect that the retiring Axis forces there can only retreat across the Black Sea into the Crimea. Ever nearer was a Russian thrust into the Germans' Kharkov line...
...sorry that I cannot give each of you advice, and that I cannot relieve you of the responsibilities which war has thrust upon you. No one can do that. Whatever you do, wherever you go, you will be persons worthy of your own respect if you remember that this war concerns you. It is you who must fight...