Word: thrust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tobruk was full of grinning, jabbering Italians. Rommel was cleverly using Italians to occupy captured ports, for salvage work, to count prisoners and booty-thus saving valuable German manpower for his thrust at the stepping-stones to Suez...
Like a monster warmed by the summer sun, the Nazi stirred. Along the Russian front, from the Black Sea to Leningrad, the shape, and probable direction, of his summer thrust emerged...
...high with an exploding freighter off a Virginia beach last week went the optimism of Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox. The Secretary had assured the U.S. that the U-boat menace had been thrust back 50 miles from the Eastern Seaboard...
...Russian attack had not. The German Army still held Kharkov, Pittsburgh of the Ukraine and key to a fine transportation net whose loss would have hurt the Nazis immeasurably. When the battle subsided after a Russian thrust into German supply lines north of Kharkov, the Germans claimed "a proud victory of annihilation": 240,000 prisoners taken, 1,249 tanks captured or destroyed, 538 aircraft shot down...
...Japanese had to hurry, because the United Nations had finally caught on: from China's airdromes the Allies could launch the aerial thrust that would smash Japan's industries, hack to bits its traffic in the South China...