Word: arcing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...raid on Wiener-Neustadt climaxed a week of diversified air attacks over Greater Germany. As the nights grew longer the offensive arc expanded steadily. Early in the week British and Canadian heavy bombers gave the twin Rhineland industrial cities of Mannheim and Ludwigshafen their 57th aerial pounding of the war. On the same night fast Mosquito bombers struck at the Ruhr and the Fighter Command jabbed at airfields and railways in France and the Low Countries...
...shell hit the top of the hill. A dark lump flew up with the smoke and blasted dust and went higher and fell in a gentle arc. A man screamed: "Help! help! help! help...
...directions-at Kursk from the area south of Orel, and from the Belgorod direction northward, also in the direction of Kursk. . . . It is sufficient to glance at the map to understand the operative plan of the German command. It envisaged the encirclement and annihilation of our troops along the arc of the Kursk salient...
...Russian forces "along the arc of the Kursk salient" constitute a goodly portion of the Red Army's best troops and armor. Kursk itself is a valuable railway and military center. But, as the Russians indicated, Nazi Field Marshal Günther von Kluge may well be more interested in the "encirclement and annihilation" of those forces than in geographical gains...
...arc of the horizon the instructor placed a scale model of a Jap ship. Black ship on black sea. Gradually the electrician turned on the dawn effect. To a landsman all was still dark, but one of the lookouts sang: "Ship! Bearing zero zero five." The black ship took faint shape as the light increased almost imperceptibly. "I think it's a carrier." It was. The artificial night was still black enough to make a cat stumble, but the lookout called the class and course of the enemy warcraft...