Word: crisscrosses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many an American citizen awaited the day when wood-and-paper Tokyo should lie beneath the crisscross hairs of a U.S. bombsight...
Suddenly the whole field is a melee. Low-lying, dust-colored British tanks, flying their proud little regimental pennants, crisscross and interweave with the darker Nazi vehicles, each marked with great white crosses. Some get so close that cannons are fired over open sights. Tanks suddenly buckle into twisted masses and leap clear off the ground under the impact of point-blank hits. Shells crash in all directions; friend sometimes hits friend...
...other was Montana-born Helen Madden, 30, secretary to Leon Henderson. The well-complected girls became friends over the telephone long ago in the constant crisscross of Nelson-Henderson calls. They had reason to decide to get acquainted, as they sat in the green-leather-&-chromium lounge, munched cream cheese and veal sandwiches. They were destined for greater collaboration, like their bosses, who had become, by Presidential order on the night before, the key men in U.S. defense management...
...than prowess, put St. Mary's on the map. Coach Simms sent out elaborate brochures telling sportswriters about the "most colorful college football team" in the U.S. He succeeded in getting games with reputable colleges from coast to coast and border to border, took his players on their crisscross-country tours in a $27,000 bus, "the biggest bus in the world...
Whether or not Willkie's listeners, like Clapper, began to see what he was driving at, he kept on driving. For the home stretch he mapped a killing itinerary. Before the campaign's end he would cross and crisscross the vital regions, smashing more & more boldly into Democratic citadels, ending with a bombardment of New York City...