Word: rearguard
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...Rearguard's Fight. The little craft were taking the main forces of the Germans to the mainland. Left in the brown, rocky hills and steep-sided valleys to the westward was only a rearguard: battalions whittled down to companies, companies reduced to platoon strength...
...rearguard of the Wehrmacht fought stubbornly and well, strongly entrenched with machine guns and 88-mm. guns, sowing its path of retreat with mines and demolition charges. But the rearguard could not hold; it could only delay-in the north, the center and the east-the steady pressure of the British and Americans toward Messina...
...Rearguard's End. The capture of Randazzo spelled the German rearguard's end. To north and east, along the coastal roads, they fought tenaciously against the U.S. and British forces knifing up the shorelines. But at week's end the remnants were fleeing. On the north coast a second amphibious flanking movement of the Americans cracked their line at Capo d'Orlando and opened up a downhill road to Messina. On the east shore the British pushed up past Riposto, past Taormina, to within artillery range of Italy itself. On neither front was any major contact...
...experienced men can exert their influence for sanity in financial affairs. Of like importance is the substitution of a multilateral agreement, a set of rules for voluntary participants to observe, in place of bilateral deals that can only fan destructive competition. Both plans write a text based on desperate rearguard campaigns of the '20s and '30s. They recognize the experience leading to the minimal Tripartite Agreement of 1936: that some collaboration, any collaboration, in international money matters is indispensable. "The Tripartite Agreement," said one potent U.S. exporter, "was worth a hundred trade treaties...
Kharkov Is a Hinge. The Germans did not encircle and destroy the Red Armies which had been moving toward the Dnieper. On the Russian side, what had been vanguard became rearguard and fought as fiercely going backward as it had going forward. What were to have been the arms of a German pincer west of the Donets embraced emptiness, converged, and drove frontally on Kharkov...