Word: bremen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Archibald's words, and making the Germans go in their cellars to think about the Lend-Lease Act, the R. A. F. proceeded to send out new equipment for raids it termed "heaviest yet"-on Berlin for the first time in 82 days, Hamburg, Cologne, the Ruhr, Kiel, Bremen. This week the Germans admitted that the North German Lloyd Liner Bremen was being consumed by a "fire of undetermined origin." The R. A. F. thought it knew...
LONDON--German "Big Bertha" guns today flung salvoes of shells into an English coastal town after relentless night assaults by British bombers on an 300-mile stretch of Adolf Hitler's "Invasion front" and his war centers of Bremen and Hanover...
...fighting to support it. The Luftwaffe took a rest after the big London raid, then gave the capital an easy time as it swept in along the south coast to hand Cardiff and Bristol blistering doses of fire bombs and explosives. The R. A. F. plastered Bremen hard three nights running, firing the Focke-Wulf factory and large areas of the town, blowing up docks and oil refineries. At week's end German bombers returned to London in another incendiary attack but thousands of cheering civilian fire-watchers stamped out the flames before they could catch hold. Only hint...
...adjectives accumulate, perhaps because they are already in the mind. Leonard Ross' Hyman Kaplan story is humorous, of course, and so are the Arthur Kober and Donald Moffat and Richard Lockridge stories. But far more typical are the bitter Jerome Weidman pieces, Irwin Shaw's savage "Sailor off the Bremen" and the incredibly sinister "Wet Saturday" of John Collier. One explanation--perhaps minor, but none the less interesting--suggests itself: the collection represents fifteen and a half years, in that some of the stories actually go back to 1925; but the bulk of the material was published between...
...face of their great disadvantage in these respects, the Royal Navy's patrols -fewer by far than in World War I-must now cope with enemy submarines based, not way up the Channel coast at Zeebrugge or clear around the continent's shoulder in Bremen, Hamburg and Kiel, but just across the Channel in Le Havre, Brest, Lorient, St. Nazaire-perhaps in a dozen other obscure ports where they can slip home at night for more fuel, food and torpedoes after brief but lethal runs to meet convoys spotted if not bombed by the far-roving Luftwaffe...