Word: crawls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Everywhere grey, genial Custodian Cook, veteran of seven inaugurations and countless special appearances, posted guards against bomb, crackpot or assassin. Two were even assigned to the great three-foot air ducts, lest somebody crawl in and loose poison gas to be swept into the House chamber through the vent over the Speaker's chair...
...side, then the other, raided and harassed its enemy during the rainy winter months. In February and March, Arnim launched heavy counter-attacks which drove the British (and the Americans farther south) back so that Rommel could crawl into the hills uncrushed. Finally, as the Eighth went to work on the Mareth Line, the First moved forward, this time methodically and to stay. In its present offensives it seems to be a seasoned fighting force which can do its jobs...
...camera watches a group of Nazi tanks deployed in a small valley. German cannon, concealed in straw-thatched sheds, fire at approaching U.S. tanks. Then U.S. artillery takes effect; the Nazi tanks turn tail (their tails are painted red to identify them for their own planes). As they crawl away, one Nazi tank is smacked by a direct hit, spins helplessly on its tracks...
...enemy is not firing, so as not to give away their positions. They dig deep, stand-up foxholes, which are safe except under direct artillery fire (and which are better than U.S. slit trenches). On the defensive, they dig themselves dugouts protected by palm trunks, and then they crawl in and resist until some explosive or a human terrier kills them. Parachutist Major Harry Torgeson, who had the job of blasting Japs out of the caves on Gavutu (TIME, Sept. 7), reported finding Japs firing machine guns over the horribly stinking corpses of comrades dead three days...
...week's end, as Allied planes pounded Sfax, Sousse, other Axis supply ports, Arnim exploded into a frenzy of activity, driving against French-held positions near Robaa and Kairouan below Tunis. His effort was to make room for Rommel to crawl in beside him and to divert Allied strength from the southern end of the Axis corridor. For a while his powerful tank attack looked as though it would develop into a full-scale offensive until Giraud's Frenchmen, supported by British and U.S. troops, stiffened and hung...