Word: commando
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...Slow-flying Junkers transports, trailing hooks, tore up Communist telephone lines, so that aid could not be summoned. Heavy artillery, brought up under cover of night to the base of the mountains, began hammering enemy strongpoints. Now, with roads and all vital bridges on the approaches to Choben in Commando hands, the French field commander, Three-Star General Gonzales de Linares, sent in tanks and infantry...
...excitement of the movie, Rommel is shown too seldom on the battlefield, and then only in defeat. The script, by Producer-Writer Nunnally Johnson, has the competence of journalistic history, but most of the excitement is packed into the picture's opening moments, during an ill-fated British Commando raid on Rommel's North African headquarters...
...Whale or a Hoax? During World War II, the monster became a military secret. It was reportedly seen by many servicemen, but the region around Loch Ness was a Commando training ground, and to quote the soldiers would have betrayed the secret of their station. Both German and Italian airmen claimed to have killed the monster, but this, said the BBC, was quite untrue. Right after the war, the witnesses testified, the monster reappeared undamaged...
...Commando Tactics. But there, anticlimactically, Maurice Tobin dropped the subject. He scrupulously avoided mentioning Joe McCarthy by name. He barely skirted the real case against McCarthyism-the technique of innuendo and slippery half-truths that deliberately confuses ends and means. And, with his glancing blow, he gave McCarthy's supporters just the right opening for a burst of commando tactics. Before Tobin could walk off the platform, a delegate grabbed a floor microphone. Over the loudspeakers his voice boomed out: "I demand that we invite Comrade McCarthy here to give us the other side of this story...
...Harlem Heights. That term for tough, elite U.S. troops persisted through the War of 1812. Then it fell into disuse in the federal service, although Texas and some other states had constabulary troops called Rangers. During World War II, the U.S. Army did not adopt the British term "commando," and again called its special troops Rangers. They moved dangerously behind enemy lines, compiled a heroic record...