Word: thrust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Earlier reports acknowledging a deterioration in the Stalingrad front revealed that a German flank thrust some 100 miles to the south had peneirated the Kahmyk stoppes. It posed the potential threat of a drive against the left wing of the Stalingrad Army or a stab at Astrakhan, at the mouth of the Volga, less than 200 miles distant...
...long as Sir Henry holds his bridge, neither defeat in southern Russia nor defeat in Egypt can be final. At the inner core of the Middle East, Allied armies will still be where they can get at, hold off and thrust back the Axis armies. There will still be an Allied wall between the Germans in Europe and Africa and the Japanese in Burma or India. But, if the Allies lose their Middle Eastern bridge, they will then be on the outer fringes of the greatest land mass ever controlled by one power or group of powers. The Axis will...
...most dangerous of all, if Egypt falls and the Nazis control the inner Mediterranean. The man waiting on that approach is the Luftwaffe's General Alexander Löhr, commander of all German forces in the Balkans, Crete and the Aegean Islands. A solely airborne thrust from Crete to the British island of Cyprus and on to the Syrian mainland would be difficult and costly, and it may be beyond the resources of the strained Luftwaffe (see p. 38). But General Löhr will be in a better position if Rommel extends his control of the southern Mediterranean...
Perhaps the Germans were merely stirring the African pot to confuse the Allies. Perhaps Berlin was justifying, in advance, a thrust into West Africa. Perhaps Berlin had realized that, with Brazil in the war, the Allies now had a hump of their own, only 1,800 miles across the Atlantic from Dakar...
Vigor. In Stockton, Calif., Mrs. Columbo Fanucchi, cycling, thrust out her hand for a left turn, thrust it through the window of a passing car, broke...