Word: thrust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Across the face of Asia, from Vladivostok to the Bay of Bengal, the fighting men of five nations this week awaited Japan's next move. Russians, Chinese, Britons, Indians and Americans nervously tried to foresee the thrust of a military machine which has so far won at almost every turn of battle and politics, in almost every phase of war in the Far East...
Near Voronezh, 300 miles north of Rostov, the Red army lunged savagely at the Germans, striving to turn the enemy's flank and relieve pressure on the bulge toward Stalingrad. The thrust was feeble. Russia's gravest hour was at hand...
...threat was still not imminent in days, or possibly even in weeks. But there was another threat. On Crete, held out of the great Rommel circus in the desert, were 250,000 German airborne troops, carefully trained by the parachute-glider expert, Lieut. General Kurt Student, for a swift thrust. Egypt, the Levant, the fat oil fields of Iraq were within their range. The United Nations, recognizing the threat, poured planes and men up from Suez and Basra. The U.S. pulled its crack airman, Major General Lewis Hyde Brereton, out of India, put him in command of its Middle East...
From Cairo and London last week came cautiously worded hints that Field Marshal Rommel's thrust into Egypt, if it went far enough, might meet an active fifth column of disgruntled natives. Singapore, Burma, India and Pearl Harbor have been revealing examples of what might happen. Censorship and a hope-for-the-best attitude cloud the picture in Egypt...
Since the Battle of the Coral Sea the Japs had done little but raid Darwin and Port Moresby inconclusively. To these attacks, bombers under General MacArthur's command had replied with raids on Jap bases in New Britain, New Guinea, Timor and one 800-mile thrust at Celebes. But, by the standards of global war, this was relative quiet along a South Pacific front which three months ago seemed destined for more of the war's hottest fighting...