Word: armes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fourth year of war, was launched on a new tack in liberated Europe: the doctrine of "abstention" initiated two weeks ago by the U.S. refusal to guarantee Poland's boundaries. However well and democratically meant, however high the motives behind the policy, it was a shot in the arm for U.S. isolationism; it was also a bare-knuckle blow to Britain...
This move gave the Germans more worries: Patton was evidently trying to swing his right arm into a south-to-north assault. The wheeling movement appeared to be coordinated with a new northward attack by Lieut. General Alexander M. Patch's U.S. Seventh Army...
...sharp reminder that, if he ignored this one, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police would drop around. Burrows, a Boer War veteran, is 66. Charlie Morton, a glassworker in Vancouver, B.C., also got a summons. Said Morton, who is 72: "I've got flat feet, a bad right arm, and a stiff back, but if they need me, I'm willing...
...Practically all their known mobile reserves on this front-eight or ten divisions-were believed to be lurking behind. The Berlin radio announced that units of the barrel-bottom Volkssturm or Home Army had been thrown in on the Western front; very few of these pathetic specimens, wearing distinctive arm bands, had been encountered on the fighting lines. Substandard Wehrmacht troops were captured in fixed positions during the first shock of the attack, but as the battle wore on the prisoners taken began to look more & more like the cream of the German army...
...farsighted Gabriel Cohen, a Belgrade shopkeeper, tied several thousand dinars into a neat package. Then he locked and shuttered his shop, and with his bundle of money under his arm, took a stroll to Belgrade's biggest cemetery. There he held a long conversation with a sexton. The money changed hands. The sexton led the way to a family-sized crypt, which Cohen entered. The crypt's massive door slammed, was locked from the outside. Shortly after, the Germans blitzed Belgrade, then took over what was left of the city...