Word: thrust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this week, however, he gave no sign of preparing such a move. His salient was contracting, but it was shrinking around a hard armored shell-in which he might be regrouping for another thrust at Liège, main Allied rear base for the Aachen-Cologne sector. The first heavy German blow in four days was an assault by three divisions on the Bastogne corridor...
Bastogne (normal pop. 4,500) suddenly became important. If the left prong of the German offensive were to be slowed in its thrust toward the Meuse it would have to be done there, where the Liège-Arlon highway meets six other roads...
...Paris by Christmas." Heaviest German thrust was delivered in the heart of the Ardennes, east of Malmédy, where they overran the U.S. forward positions entirely, advanced five miles into Belgium...
...German command had still another worry. Last week it told of a Red Army thrust toward Cracow on the long-dormant southern Poland front that points to the Reich's industries-rich Silesia, feared it might be the start of a winter offensive. As usual, the Russians gave no hints...
...quislings attempted to thrust Norway's police, schools and courts into the Nazi mold, the voice of the Church was lifted again & again in protest. Then, shortly before Christmas 1940, the quisling Ministry of Police issued an order revoking the clergy's oath of silence. This oath, guaranteeing the Lutheran clergy's right to preserve their parishioners' confidences, as Catholic priests preserve the secrets of the confessional, was Norway's "Magna Carta" of conscience. The seven bishops of Norway prepared to act. In a letter addressed to Minister of Church and Education Ragnar Skancke, they...