Word: armored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jungle Retrievers. Last week the enemy's armor-tipped columns speared into Kweilin through the tired 35 divisions of China's "Old Ironsides," General Chang Fa-kwei. They closed in on Liuchow, and the eighth of our air bases was missing. Simultaneously the enemy drove for Nanning. The gap between the Japs' north and south China forces already had been closed; now, if the drive for Nanning succeeded, the enemy would have through lines from Manchuria to Indo-China and thence to Singapore. The Fourteenth Air Force would be pushed back hundreds of miles from the South...
...fish is Ostracion diaphenus, known to South Africans as Seevarkie or "sea piggy," to the U.S. as the "trunk fish." This eight-inch creature is encased in a bony hide like armor. Dr. von Bonde became interested in it when he learned that Malay fishermen of Cape Town were in the habit of drying it and hanging it up with a string to determine the direction of coming gales. He hung a Seevarkie in a draft-free room in his aquarium. The nose of the dead, free-swinging fish pointed in a certain direction. Sure enough, winds began to blow...
...quiet, moody, self-conscious man whose wit is armor as well as ammunition. He is crotchety about his age; to somebody who asked where he was born, and when, he quipped: "I was born in San Francisco-and I don't blame you for trying." He is facetious about his youth...
...south of England. Simultaneously airborne troops invaded the Midlands. The first landing, in Kent and Sussex on England's southeastern tip. sucked London's defenders down to battle. Then came the second attack, to the west, in the Portland and Weymouth area of Dorset. German armor poured quickly through the inviting flats up to the rolling Salisbury Plain and the Cotswolds, then swerved southeastward to take London from the rear. In the final stages the last British remnants in North Wales were cleaned up completing the occupation of England...
Hundreds of farmers stayed away from market - and El Salvador is a big tropical farm : a farmers' strike paralyzes the country. Opinion grew that Colonel Aguirre would soon lose his fight against the passive people. But Colonel Osmin Aguirre y Salinas rattled his Lend-Lease armor, declared that Salvadorans who joined the passive resistance movement would be shot...