Word: breakout
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...complaining about cautious, tidy Montgomery when he was really taking the brunt of the battle? (The fact is that many military men, including Germans, feel that Monty could have taken his major objective, Caen, in the first days if he had chosen to move instead of sitting.) After the breakout, Brookie was again peeved. Why didn't Ike let Monty take the bulk of the armies and finish off the Germans in the Ruhr? Instead, Ike insisted on forming up along the Rhineland, fighting wherever he found the enemy in force. The Battle of the Bulge was, of course...
...which Dutch villagers would "send for the underground men just as they did for the plumber." Paul holed up in one hideout beneath the floorboards of a barn while German troops clomped about up above. He narrowly missed recapture when he joined in an astonishing attempt at a mass breakout to British lines by 110 men, which German patrols mopped up. Two more attempts failed; he had one desperate but exhilarating moment when he wheeled his bicycle through a crowd of German troops that had "the stale, panicky smell of troops on the run." Finally, he made it by canoe...
Darvas places his buy orders for levels that he considers breakout points on the upside. At the same time, he places a stop-loss sell order just below his buy order, so that if the stock does not move straight up after he buys, he will be sold out and his loss cut. "I have no ego in the stock market," he says. "If I make a mistake I admit it immediately and get out fast." Darvas thinks his system is the height of conservatism. Says he: "If you could play roulette with the assurance that whenever...
...nothing can leach the drama out of Bismarck's 1941 breakout, her four-minute sinking of the glass-jawed battle cruiser Hood (killing all but three of the 1,419 aboard), and the oceanwide net of ships and planes that eventually closed round the battleship. In that encounter, southwest of Ireland, Bismarck proved, in fact, almost as unsinkable as her builders claimed...
...court with another sheaf of charges, ranging from kidnaping to conspiracy to commit contempt of court. But for the time being, at least, The Wanderer was at sea. At 42, Sterling Hayden, in his own words "a decent enough man, not too bright perhaps," had finally made his breakout...