Word: briefing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...line of their Maginot extension, the German breakthrough could not have been so swift and disastrous. In France the Brooke system never had a chance to prove itself, for after being ordered into, then out of Belgium, the Second Corps was swung south of its prepared positions in a brief effort to close the fatal Peronne-Bapaume gap. Then it was ordered to Dunkirk, where Sir Alan's rear-guard action and evacuation won him his knighthood...
While the candidacies of Jim Farley, Jack Garner and Millard Tydings ran their brief, unhappy course, while the anti-Third Term resolution was booed to the flag-draped rafters, while delegation after delegation said its say for Franklin Roosevelt, the President played host to a radio party of friends and trusted helpers. In the historic study that is saturated with the memories of critical scenes and critical decisions, he sat attentive beneath a painting of John Paul Jones...
...brief interruption was a trip to Denver, where he shook hands with all comers at a public reception, made a brief speech, pledging himself to work for: 1) a united people free of class hate; 2) "the rehabilitation of our economic life;" 3) an adequate defense program...
...abdication. If she should succeed to Britain's power a new navy will rule the seas-a navy which for practical purposes dates back only to 1898. Its creator was able, far-seeing Admiral von Tirpitz, famed for his bifurcated beard, whose active service extended to 1916. The brief German naval tradition is of daring, offensive, individual action, of surface and submarine raiders ranging far & wide through two world wars. It is of one great battle-Jutland-and of studious, hard-faced Vice Admiral Scheer directing the fleet against Jellicoe and Beatty from the bridge of the Friedrich...
Blood leaves the brain and sinks to the stomach. Loss of blood in the brain produces a "grey veil" before the pilot's eyes, later, a brief blackout. Best way to resist centrifugal force is to lie on the back. It might be good physics, continued Dr. von Diringshofen, to install a tilting seat in fighting planes which would enable fliers to lean backwards. But it would be bad psychology. For in "a hot and heavy fight" a man on his back would lose all fighting spirit...