Word: afoot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vengeance came swiftly for Plouvien. U.S. troops caught the Germans in the town, trapped them as they fled afoot and in horse-drawn vehicles, raked them with shells. Of the 1,500 Germans who had marched into Plouvien only 700 marched out again. They were prisoners...
Touraine Room--Most of the battalion, not wary of crowded places and all that goes with them, assembled here last Saturday night. The place was packed like a stockyard. But there wasn't much drink stirring afoot. It seems everyone had picked out the same place to meet his friends--that's all. Max Kirschbaum even thought for a minute that he saw his mother here but no luck...
Copley Plaza--There was no one around here but Parker Buck having dinner with his mother-in-law-to-be, up from New York for the weekend. One could see big plans afoot. Parker says this is the only way to make certain the answer will be "yes and soon...
After the lectures on the manner of placing a vote, there was political agitation afoot. Hend of the Young People's Republican Committee is Dave Teeter. Campaigning under the slogan "Come out, come out, wherever you are," any friends of Tom E. are assured of a welcome here. Bob "Studs" Berra leads the Chase Democratic Committee. In a late press release he vows that in spite of any talk to the contrary, his men are completely color-blind, on principle...
...called for a tank, rode atop it in a rain of fire as it sprayed the hedgerows. The tank driver was wounded. Paddy crawled down, went forward afoot. A sniper's bullet got him as he led his patrol into the shelter of a farmhouse...