Word: commando
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...hairdressers also turned up an assortment of new hairdos for war-minded women, all short bobs designed for efficiency and named, as would be nonsensically expected, "Commando," "Bombardier," "Waacaroo...
Some youngsters, not yet in high school, got the jump on the older boys by forming their own Junior Commandos, influenced by the comic strips' "Colonel Orphan Annie," currently leading her commandos against enemy agents. At Detroit's Boys Club playground more than 100 youngsters, dressed in shorts, sneakers and tin helmets, and carrying wooden guns, went through commando drill...
...except hope. And last week that hope grew dimmer. No longer did the Government send leaflets to the troops reading: "Hold on, help will come soon." Having lost, by unofficial estimate, about 5,000,000 dead or wounded, the Russians were in no mood to sympathize with Dieppe Commando raid losses. Their Ukraine breadbasket was being trampled by hordes of Germans. Germans stood deep in the Caucasus. They spread over the entire, scorched valley of the Don. Bitterness grew at the lack of a second front...
...Commando barges, carrying also a detachment of U.S. Rangers, moved shoreward. Along the French coast anti-aircraft guns barked fretfully. R.A.F. bombers, sent ahead, were softening up inland positions. But the Nazis might not have guessed what was brewing, if ill luck had not overtaken the raiders groping into Berneval...
...done well, for there is more than the threat of invasion, more than the continual harrying of the R.A.F., to make life complicated for the Germans in occupied Europe. Small Commando raids have to be met almost nightly, and occasionally big ones-such as last week at Dieppe...