Word: anvils
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...those matters which were "even more secret than top-secret." In fact, "BIGOT Y" card holders were authorized to see papers which personnel assigned "BIGOT X" cards could not-which placed "BIGOT Y" two security classifications above mere top-secret. Despite these precautions . . . the southern France invasion (named ANVIL) was notorious as the worst-kept secret of the war. I recall hearing Neapolitan street urchins in July calling at members of our combat divisions: "Hey, Joe, when you go to France-next month?" GILBERT L. BURTON Palo Alto, Calif...
When he was 1,200 ft. over Baragwanath, Comte cut loose his tow. Some ten miles to the south he spotted a towering thunderhead. Rain poured from its base, and lightning played around the high-riding, anvil-headed cloud. Sure that it would contain powerful updrafts, Comte headed for it. As he maneuvered under its base, he switched on his electrically driven gyro-horizon...
...Antoni Clave to do the sets, and he had turned out some breathtaking ones in melodramatic black, blue and crimson. Then the Gypsy Azucena (Sonia Arova) lashed into a dance to Verdi's crackling Stride lavampa music, and Page and the dancers were in full command. In the Anvil Chorus, the dancers whirled with so much gusto that the crowd could hardly keep from stomping out the rhythm with them. Standout scene: Azucena's duet with Manrico, her foster-son and the instrument of her revenge against the aristocratic Di Luna family. The ballet, like the opera, ended...
...forces moved quickly to cut the escape routes. On the day that U.N. troops first entered the North Korean capital, Douglas MacArthur had called five newsmen to his Tokyo office, explained that he was about to launch another hammer & anvil maneuver. The next morning, on the sixth anniversary of his World War II landing at Leyte, MacArthur took off for Korea in his new Constellation, the SCAP...
...Manchurian and Siberian borders. U.N. air power harassed and hampered these lines. They could be cut at a critical point by a U.N. landing above or below the mudflats on the west coast opposite Pyongyang. Once MacArthur's men were ashore again, the U.N. would have another anvil on which the hammer of troops advancing from the south could crush the enemy's last organized forces and thus pound out the final victory...