Word: thrust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Duke of Burgundy and 22 years ago a delegation of Germans signed an armistice dictated by France's Marshal Ferdinand Foch. Before Adolf Hitler as he stepped out of the car stood France's monument to Alsace-Lorraine. German war flags covered the sculptured sword thrust into a limp German eagle. Swastika banners hid the inscription beneath: To the Heroic Soldiers of France, Defenders of the Country and of Right, Glorious Liberators of Alsace-Lorraine...
...west, German armored columns thrust steel fingers around one seaport after another-St. Malo, Brest, Lorient, Nantes, St. Nazaire, La Rochelle-reaching for Bordeaux. German and Italian bombers repeated at Bordeaux their performance of last fortnight at Tours, dumping death into the overcrowded city to panic the populace and complete France's demoralization. This stopped only when white flags were flown in a wide circle around Bordeaux...
...Paris fell, so did Le Havre. So did Montmedy, northern anchor of the fabulous Maginot Line, and Verdun, long thought impregnable, was encircled from the west, cracked. Meanwhile additional German forces thrust past Reims to Chalons, headed for Dijon, Chaumont, Belfort, Mulhouse, to take the whole Maginot Line from the rear...
...They but thrust their buried...
...German corps, of which several thrust their way down the Somme to the sea last week, was observed in Poland to be composed of two armored divisions, one motorized infantry division and 15 infantry divisions, with appropriate artillery and air auxiliaries...