Word: abreast
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Outside the refinery the dead peopled the fields in attitudes of grotesque helplessness. The wounded lay amid the still burning wreckage of smashed German motor columns; they were so many that there was no way to evacuate them. On the roads the prisoners marched eight abreast in a column a mile long and a Belgian woman danced up & down with her finger across her throat screeching "Kaput Hitler...
Said enthusiastic Chairman Wilson, "In a nutshell, the purpose of this organization is to keep America not abreast, but ahead of the rest of the world...
...clear that 1) the German fighters had found ways to break through the long-range escort cover; 2) when they did, the bombers with new and improved gun turrets were well able to take care of themselves. New German tactics were unavailing. Rocket-carrying Me-210s lined up six abreast, attacked the bombers head on, peeled off to the left. Then five or six more would come...
Other air-front news: > Against the Fortress and Liberator formations, the Germans are trying new defensive tactics. Three planes abreast, coming head on, swing from left to right to avoid the frontal guns of the U.S. formations. It has not worked. > The Germans revealed hitherto unpublished information on U.S. tactics: the bomber formations are protected by other Fortresses that carry no bombs (presumably fill their bays with extra tons of ammunition to fire at German fighters. A Nazi newscast drew an eloquent picture of battle over Germany: "Thus more than 1,000 U.S. airmen, covered by armored planes, are defending...
...August 2 issue of TIME reached me somewhere in Iceland today [Aug. 12]. . . . This new Pony Edition arrives abreast of the very latest news, and makes me feel that the States, which I left a year ago, are almost close enough to reach out and touch...