Word: wide
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Schlieffen Plan, master design of Germany's attack in 1914, called for the German Armies swinging like a scythe pivoted from a point near Metz, to sweep in a wide circle through Belgium far to the westward around Paris and, still sweeping around, finally pin the French Armies against the Rhine and the Alps. Last week, they watched the execution of another plan, another swing, but a swing in the opposite direction. Pivoting at Antwerp, the scythe swept westward. Its point at Sedan swept onward to Rethel, Laon, St. Quentin. For a time it threatened to swing far enough...
...seems likely that the German Army, preceded by its powerful tanks, will roll in through Holland to Belgium where it is ardently to be hoped that the Albert Canal from Antwerp to Liege will . . . stop them. If not, it would move toward our northern frontier, 350 kilometers wide...
Gibson & Casey created Elmer (in the person of a Brooklyn actor), set him forth as a slightly paunchy, wide-eyed, folksy prototype of a supposedly average Fair-going U. S. citizen. Day before his Forty Fair opened, Harvey Gibson made no predictions. Said he, disparaging the importance of "mere numbers": "If everybody who comes to the Fair has a good time, we will be satisfied."* By that homey standard, Mr. Gibson's opener last week was a huge success...
...fortress troops and a division of Ardennes Chasseurs (guerrilla forest fighters). Another 480,000 men with some training were mobilized, though there was fighting equipment for only about 130,000 of these. Instead of a trench-furrowed valley, Belgium's defense line now was the 250-foot-wide Albert Canal running from Liege northwest to Antwerp, with reinforced concrete blockhouses and pillboxes along its inner bank; with open fields on the far bank to expose an invader; with a flooding system to bog down those fields; with tank traps and barriers, mined highways and bridges...
...Netherlands. He joined Queen Wilhelmina twice last autumn in trying to secure peace by mediation. Said he: "Side by side with Holland, Belgium stands." She joined him, meanwhile, with a Dutch preparedness program which, while not calculated to do more than delay Germany until Allied reinforcements arrived, was a wide departure from her unarmed neutrality in the last war. It helped cover Belgium's vital interests to the north. Wilhelmina was urged to adopt it by patriarchal Hendrikus Colijn, long her most trusted adviser. Last week the Dutch defense system stood ready and the men in it, commanded...