Word: zigzags
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Zigzag Line. In all their efforts the Russians scored heavily in behalf of a major need: several important rail centers were again in or nearly in Russian hands. The threat against the highly strategic rail link between Murmansk on the Arctic coast and Leningrad was allayed. Control of the Volkhov River would mean possession of four-fifths of the Moscow-Leningrad railroad. Already recaptured was the southbound Moscow-Tula-Orel railroad. If the Germans could be driven out of the Donets Basin and Crimea, Russia could again link up communications important to her war effort-the zigzag lines of rails...
...Date of the invasion of Holy Russia, when the zigzag Communist Party line zagged right...
...about whether he was really navigating-or whether he was acting under sealed orders. In any case, war between Germany and Russia called for a new compass course from Skipper Curran. Thereupon he flung N.M.U.'s helm hard astarboard, neatly following the latest zig in the Communist Party zigzag...
...that all. Voyages are slower, owing to the fact that convoys must assume the speed of their slowest members and must steer in zigzag courses. On the average, voyages take twice as long as they did before the war. So these 13,000,000 tons of shipping carry roughly only as much goods as 6,500,000 tons could carry in peacetime...
...small collapsible buildings, can be unpacked and set up in 24 hours. The buildings are jointed and grooved; once they are unfolded and set up require only tightening of a few stout bolts. Each unit is raised "bout a foot and a half off the ground on four zigzag iron legs which stretch like automobile jacks. Windows made of Plexiglas, run head-high around each building, are hinged so they can be pushed out from the bottom. Floors are made of composition rubber, and through the center of the peaked ceilings run electric tubes for illumination...