Word: width
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...left arm. It reached the Baltic 43 miles southwest of Königsberg, enfolded Elbing, created a pocket 85 miles deep. The Russians had done another impossible: they had broken through the "impregnable" German defenses in the Masurian Lakes area, had narrowed the pocket to an average width of 40 miles. Inside was what remained of a Wehrmacht force of some...
...this week the Red Army onslaught was in the full stride of a grand assault, gaining momentum and widening the advance. The Russians had pierced 40 miles, had spread their break to a width of 65 miles. They had taken their first prize: Kielce (pop. 58,000), a hub of roads and railways 20 miles west of the point where Konev stopped last August after he had bloodily won his Vistula bridgehead...
Standing only the width of the ship's bridge away from Lumsden, with whom he had been discussing the action, was Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser, commander in chief of the British Pacific Fleet. He got nothing worse than "a bit of a bang in the ears." Sir Bruce will soon lead his own powerful fleet into battle under U.S. overall command...
...naval air power had stretched its reach the full width of the Pacific. U.S. carrier-borne planes dominated the skies 6,000 miles west of the American mainland. For the first time, they roared up & down the China coast. If a landing in China was, as Fleet Admiral Nimitz said, "still an objective," then last week's forays by Vice Admiral John S. McCain's fast carrier task force showed that the aerial umbrella to cover it was already available...
...similarly injured. Betsey Barton made this discovery at Manhattan's unique Institute for the Crippled and Disabled.* There she found an organization with many disabled people on its staff, using many kinds of special training methods. For example, there are replicas of bus steps, curbs placed just the width of a city street apart, with lights timed like traffic lights. Hardest trick for Betsey Barton was getting into...