Word: breach
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While the British Navy acted last week to repair a serious breach in the British Empire defense, Viscount Craigavon, His Majesty's Prime Minister in Northern Ireland, scurried to London for an urgent conference with Warlord Winston Churchill on an equally serious problem: "Irish back door...
Motorized Infantry, shock troops in armored trucks attached to the Attack Army, machine-gunners on armored motorcycles, followed the assault tanks. Behind them followed motorized field artillery. The job of these forces was to widen and hold the breach made, turn it over to ordinary infantry brought up behind. Maximum speed of the whole armored column was that of the break-through tanks: 18 m.p.h. But with each column, for special demolition duty and advance work, went 170-h.p. Diesel-powered medium tanks capable of 85 m.p.h. on roads, 50 m.p.h. across country on their caterpillar tracks. And the Germans...
...wavering defense ring which the rallying Norwegians now threw around Oslo. Newly arrived Germans easily broke through this ring and, while earlier arrivals moved north and west, started methodically subjugating Norway's southeast cor ner. If the Allied sea blockade should prove effective, they might have to breach Swedish neutrality and bring up reinforce ments by rail from Malmö or Hälsingborg...
...three full minutes the audience applauded, forgiving Jimmy's historical dustiness* for the sake of his heat. But if Canada was pleased, hopping mad was many a U. S. Congressman. "An outrageous and disgraceful breach of his office," growled Missouri's Senator Clark, demanding Jimmy's immediate recall. Ohio's Representative Sweeney: "We should have the courage to tell Cromwell and his lawfully wedded fortune, Doris Duke, to get the hell out of this Republic." Senator Gerald Nye of North Dakota accused Jimmy of being a mere mouthpiece: "All that Cromwell was doing was reflecting...
...Canada is clear proof of the cordial relations existing between these two neighbors. The adverse criticism which accompanied his appointment a short time ago has now been fully justified. For when Mr. Cromwell announced yesterday that America's frontier lies on the Rhine he was guilty of a breach of diplomatic good sense amply testifying to his unfitness...