Word: linked
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...that shipment to India of several thousand trucks of special design for the Road was begun in October. Presumably the Army wanted China to know that help was near. While the trucks waited Lieut. General Daniel I. Sultan last week had Bhamo surrounded, needed only 65 more miles to link India with the Burma Road. Because the Japs' main bodies had been forced toward south Burma, there was some reason to hope that the 65 miles might not be too long or too bloody...
...agreement or the Russo-French (Stalin-Laval) mutual assistance treaty of 1935. General de Gaulle might well hold out for something bigger. He is known to favor a modern version of the Triple Entente (1907-1917) that bound Tsarist Russia with France and Britain. France might again become the link between Russia and Britain...
...Canadians landed near Hoofdplaat, east of Breskens, and started fighting their way south to link hands with their comrades edging up from the Leopold Canal. Even this was not enough. The Nazi defenders-20,000 desperate and skillful infantrymen, marines, naval artillerymen, SS antitank specialists and paratroops-stood their ground along the countless dikes...
...Shadowy Link. The revived Feme of the Weimar Republic was dedicated to the destruction of democracy, the resurrection of Teutonism and Junkerdom. It started in Bavaria. After World War I, German nationalists flocked together in societies, some of them secret like the C Organization, some studiedly innocent like the German Wrestling Bund or the German Social Employment Society. The link was the shadowy Feme, hidden wherever arms were hidden-on Junker estates in East Prussia and Silesia, and in Bavaria. Protection was supplied by the unreconciled in the Republic's Government, by discontented ex-officers in the Black Reichswehr...
...tribute to his scholarship that he can quote chapter and verse for every phrase in them, to his style that the reading flows along with no patchwork effect. To bring writers and writing back to the main body of life, as they were in Longfellow's time, to link the struggles of artists to the daily work of mechanics and farmers, to fill the background of his books with the ordinary stuff of daily living of most of the people-housekeeping, planting, building, harvesting, buying and selling, keeping well and keeping busy-this is the contribution that his method...