Word: withdrawn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unknown factor was the true nature of the Germans' winter plans. If, for example, they had deliberately withdrawn troops from Stalingrad's rear toward the Don and prepared for a stand there, the Russian advances might not have been a complete shock to Hitler. The facts remained that the Red Army had shown its best offensive generalship to date, that it had punctured the Germans' Don-Volga line, and that the battle was not yet over...
...respectfully request that said remarks be withdrawn...
...months at Tobruk) launched their little offensive last week. At mountain peak No. 3 (of the six between Port Moresby and the gap at the top of the range) they seeped through and outflanked the foremost Jap positions. But the Japs, softened by strafing and bombing raids, had already withdrawn...
...John C. Fremont, 62, retired Navy captain, grandson of famed frontiersman General John C. ("The Pathfinder") Fremont; in Manhattan. Widow of the late Suffragan Bishop of New York, she owns the palatial "Seaview Terrace," famed $1,000,000 Newport showplace (twice put on auction, once for taxes, twice withdrawn for lack of sizable bids...
Meanwhile, on Guadalcanal, U.S. Marines fought off Zeros and bombers that were attacking there. With the loss of only three planes, Marine pilots destroyed eleven Zero fighters, five two-motored Mitsubishis, five carrier bombers. By the time the battle ended and the Japs had withdrawn in the light of a bright moon, U.S. pilots of all the services had shot down a total of 96 enemy planes. U.S. losses: eight pilots missing...