Word: sectored
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Teapot Tempest. The immediate sector was the renewed fight over subsidies-an issue more boring to the average citizen than the oldtime tariff, and much less understandable...
...this sector, the Russian withdrawal might well continue. Momentarily, the cards of war are stacked against the Red Army...
...Buka Island. Reinforced U.S. troops fought grimly in the jungles of Bougainville, wrenching advances of several hundred yards in the Empress Augusta Bay area while engineers rushed construction of airstrips. Australian troops, using Matilda tanks smuggled in secretly at night, increased pressure against the Japanese in the Finschhaven sector of New Guinea...
...Wehrmacht's last north-to-south railway in pre-1939 Russia, compelled the Germans to use the single-track line 100 miles to the west, in pre-1939 Poland. This defeat virtually split apart Germany's southern and central armies, will hamper the shifting of reserves from sector to sector to meet Russian attacks. Main attacks...
...Nevel sector, which looks like a dagger aimed at the Baltic States and northern Poland, there was fierce action again, and the Germans acknowledged a "major penetration" of their lines. West of Nevel some Russian columns were now within 50 miles of the Latvian, 40-odd miles of the Polish border. Gomel still faced doom and Red troops were barely a dozen miles from German held Vitebsk...