Word: towards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Moreover, you may have helped to push a good two-fisted fighter along toward the Presidency. Many hope that you have...
...against the Reds. It had proved that in peacetime it could move quickly into positions to counter a "French" invasion, but from there on what would happen is guesswork. In last week's maneuvers it disposed of the imaginary enemy after several days of "fighting" and pressed on toward Mt. Thabor, an Italian bastion jutting deep into France. Corriere della Sera chestily observed: "If it were possible to carry out the experiment beyond the frontier realism would be perfect...
...original German plan provided that the First Army under Kluck was to pass through Belgium, shoulder the Belgian Army out of the war, march southwest of Paris across the Seine, protecting the German right flank. But in the uncertainty of movement and position, Kluck lost direction, veered toward Paris instead of circling southwest to envelop it. Sensing the significance of the German right wing's undershot, in the evening of August 25, Marshal Joffre's tactical adviser, a smooth, silent, chubby little 42-year-old officer named Maurice Gamelin had written out Joffre's historic Instruction No.2...
...offensive designed to break between the French and British armies where they joined in the devastated regions of the Somme. Gas soon shrouded the British batteries and their fire ceased. A little before 9 a. m. masses of German troops released from the Eastern Front poured through the fog toward General Cough's British-battalion after battalion, column after column, complete with field bakeries, ammunition trains, medical units, until more than 1,000,000 men were in motion, and advancing columns stretched back 45 miles behind the German lines. On a 75-mile front the Allied lines gave...
...woman, had gone down. This was signed off with "Okay, big boy." Another message charted a strange position: "Eighteen days out of Calcutta, 40 miles south of Hialeah." (Forty miles south of Hialeah race track lie the Everglades.) After several hours: "Don't speak English." Last message, toward 5 a. m.: "Will sink in two hours. Ten inches of water in my room...