Word: waited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...turn the German tactics near Kharkov to his advantage. Given ample arms, he was in ideal position to smash Bock's advancing forces by simultaneous attack from all sides of the pocket. Perhaps Moscow was holding its fire for a larger crisis at Kursk; perhaps Timoshenko preferred to wait until the Kharkov pocket was deeper, the Germans more vulnerable. But last week, when he wanted to attack by air at the upper edge of the pocket, he had to shuttle planes from the south, then quickly return them to the threatened Izyum sector...
...Average wait: three months. The 60-odd schooling fields of the Flying Training Command could not absorb the candidates as fast as they were needed or as fast as they applied...
...decisions which would answer Molotov, the world had to wait. But Churchill's sudden visit to the U.S., Molotov's grave words and the graver threat to Russia (see p. 21), all the crowding crises of last week hammered home a fact so simple that it was hard to grasp. In World War II there are no separate fronts. There are only sectors of one world-belting front. Mr. Molotov's cry for a fresh sector in Europe had to be balanced against cries from Chungking (see p. 25); against the threat looming from the Aleutians...
...Russian army in order to crush it, for the Russians can even now retreat 1,000 miles without even reaching the Ural industrial area. To do this, the Germans had to be free to attack along the whole 2,000-mile battlefront. For this the Germans had to wait for good weather. Not until mid-June can the ground be counted on to be fit and hard in the north around Leningrad (a month later than in the Ukraine...
Eighteen-year-old King Peter of Yugoslavia arrived by plane in Washington, looked forward to: 1) talking with President Roosevelt; 2) watching airplane production; 3) driving a jeep; 4) playing baseball. It turned out that he had something else to look forward to, but a war-long wait lay ahead. When it's over he will marry pretty Princess Alexandra of Greece...