Word: crested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first everything was wild confusion. Germans suddenly appeared over the crest of hills and shot up towns. They overran rear-area supply points, pounced upon U.S. artillerymen before they could get to their guns. Germans surrounded a field of artillery-spotting planes, whose pilots were fast asleep. U.S. divisional generals found their command posts the centers of battles, their defenders hastily armed cooks, clerks, medics, runners. Trucks filled with German soldiers dashed through areas where rear-echelon G.I.s went about their routine tasks...
Winston Churchill, Man of 1940, had also been a symbol. In Britain's darkest and finest hour, his flaming words and dauntless courage had heartened his country to stand alone against Hitler at the crest of his Blitzkrieg power. As one of the organizers of victory, Churchill had been magnificent. Now in the last weeks of 1944, he was facing-with his usual truculence-the heaviest criticism of his World War II career; his critics charged him with responsibility for the civil war in Greece and for selling out Poland to Russia...
...unless more rains came, the flood crest would pass. The Seine would begin to drop down André's stony legs, and within a few weeks coal barges would again arrive. Said the Parisians: "The Zouave, being made of marble, cannot catch pneumonia or be unmanned. But we others, hein...
...shortage. Looked at nationally, this did not seem terribly urgent: war plants were but 200,000 workers short. But the men were needed in critical spots. Accordingly, Government and Army & Navy men scurried about urging war workers to stay on their jobs, exhorting those who had left, on the crest of the September optimism, to return...
...James Michael Curley is perhaps the strongest believer in the maxim that God helps those who help themselves. As onetime mayor of Boston he helped himself to $30,000 of city graft. Nevertheless he became governor of Massachusetts, then U.S. Congressman. Up or down, whether riding the crest of popularity or selling the family silver to meet his debts, Jim Curley has been at the public trough for 44 of his 70 years. Last week he hoped once again to better himself. At the very time when he had been re-elected to Congress, and a few scant hours after...