Word: rails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Zhukov broke through the Bug line a month ago, the whole German line began to fall back. Zhukov knew he could not encircle a force retreating twelve to 18 miles a day, decided to outrace it. He seized its roads, rail centers, Dniester bridgeheads by quick penetrations, straddled the few good retreat routes across a muddy, wooded flatland...
Wingate's jungle-wise raiders had already put the Japanese in a spot by cutting their rail and river communications below Myitkyina. Stilwell's own forces had pocketed the large Jap "force farther north. The Japs, rallying every man they had, made a desperate attack on Stilwell's road block. They breached it, were thrown back in desperate fighting beyond. Then Stilwell's Chinese took the offensive, drove the Japs from their dugouts by the river bank. In the jungles, ringing with the earsplitting metallic whine of cicadas, the fighting went on for over ten days...
Slosson, a thin little man, sharply blue-eyed, appropriately billiard-bald, plays with a cue he bought for 50? in Louisville in 1874. He figures it has been re-tipped at least 500 times and had perhaps 40 leather covers on its butt. With it he won the straight-rail world championship from Maurice Daly in 1877, the Champions Game title from Maurice Vigneaux in 1882, the cushion-caroms title in 1884, the 14.2 balkline championship in 1887, the 18.1 balkline title from Jacob ("Wizard") Schaefer in 1888, the 18.2 balkline title from Willie Hoppe...
...year. With the monsoon not due for at least a month, high winds and tropical downpours, some of them lasting five days at a time, have pelted the area repeatedly in recent weeks. *Strikingly beautiful Mrs. Wingate, reported to be expecting a child shortly, first saw Wingate at the rail of a liner when she was 15 and he 30, introduced herself by saying, "You're the man I'm going to marry." Answered Wingate: "You are right. When?" Two years later she wrote...
Suddenly Hitler switched, graciously allowed his guest to think matters over. That night, while the old man dozed and thought, Nazi paratroopers dropped silently on dark Hungarian airfields. Before the early morning mists had lifted on Monday, March 20, German infantry motored into Hungary, deployed to seize every important rail and road center and all communications. Abruptly Budapest Radio ceased using as a theme the Rakoczi March with its impudent first line: "God of the Hungarians, destroy the German Army...