Word: withdrawing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...constant pressure against the 40-mile front had had its effect. Rommel in alarm had begun to withdraw his stores and supplies. To counter what seemed to be the greatest threat, at the end of his line which was anchored to the seacoast, he had swung the 21st Panzer Division north. That was when the inexorable Montgomery struck...
...they did in the Philippines, wear pole-climbers' jacks. The Japs advance with a white flag then toss grenades. Some wear machine guns strapped to their backs and crouch down while comrades fire the weapons. They often use English. They catch names and will shout: "Mr. Manning, withdraw!" A Marine far out in front and reporting by "walkie-talkie" wireless was asked how things stood. The Japs were horning in, for the answer came in precise, clipped English: "My position is excellent, thank...
...connecting door in the west side of General Marshall's office might suddenly open; the lined but perky face of Secretary Stimson would appear, withdraw. General Marshall would quickly arise, walk into the Secretary's office, then, after a few minutes, return to his own desk (once the property of "Little Phil" Sheridan). Every day there are many such casual meetings between the Secretary and the Chief of Staff...
...warning that the United Nations could read in the Red Army's heroic retreat was that soon they might have to face the Axis without effective Russian aid. If Marshal von Bock could push the Russians across the Volga and then successfully stabilize his lines, Hitler could withdraw armies and air fleets for use in other theaters...
...armies. Only when the summer is run, when the brief Russian fall is whiting into another winter, will the Germans know whether and what they have won. Then the Russians will have decided whether to stand upon their immediate southern line, somewhere near the Volga, or to withdraw to their bastions in the Urals. Then the Germans will measure their huge losses in men, planes, tanks and guns against the sure wear of winter, against the certainty that this year or never they must seal their conquest in southern Russia with victory in the Middle East. Then Hitler will know...