Word: webs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...properly defective. There is an enthusiastic appetite for everything possibly sinister about a big city and its people. The makers of the film go farther with their realism: they try to make sensations and states of mind visual. Best: the drug sequence, presenting through double exposure an indecipherable web of confusion and dreamlike memory...
Design for Decision. Destruction requires a mountain of supplies, and the Allied supply distribution system was well in hand. The famed Red Ball truck route across France was out of operation last week, because a more efficient rail web was now in service. While waiting for Antwerp to reach top unloading capacity, the Allies had the Dutch harbor of Flushing. They had also restored Le Havre and Rouen. If there are any more shortages, it will be because of inept estimates or because of short shipments from the home front. As General Eisenhower put it more delicately at a press...
...cutting of Metz's communications unhinged the German position in Lorraine, and they began a general withdrawal to the east. Because of its web of roads and railways the city will be an immensely valuable supply base for the Allies...
Corporal J. F. Brennan and Pfc. Stan Sill ran into the spider web. When they got home to the Anzio beachhead, they were still mad enough to write a letter to the editor - in this case, the editor of the Stars and Stripes...
Along the 500-mile-long front, from the Dnieper's mouth to the Carpathians, four Red Armies hacked their way forward. Their prime objective: the web of railroads over which the enemy could be reinforced-or retreat. This week, all but one inferior escape line into Rumania had been cut. Birds of ill omen hovered over the fringes of the German-held steppe -air transports were dropping fuel and supplies to stalled trucks and tanks...