Word: cross-channel
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...Allied advance toward Calais goaded the Germans to fire last stinging salvos from their big cross-Channel guns. Some 100 big shells crashed down on the Dover strip ("Hell's Corner") in the space of four hours.* One deaf old lady of 82 slept on, unhurt, while her home was wrecked. When fire wardens awoke her amid the ruins, she looked around, said: "What a mess...
...Clear. In Rye, England, the town fathers failed to appoint a successor to the late Chummy Barton, last official Watcher for Napoleon's cross-Channel invasion of England...
...Island-Hopping makes me sick, too. . . . I'm for Eisenhower. I'm for MacArthur. . . . You can't whip Germany by whipping somebody in Senegambia. I'm a 'cross-Channel' man, myself, and I think we've finally got the right idea in an all-out Western Front attack...
...Roosevelt "meddled" the U.S. into a war which was none of its business. Said he: the second front, at best, would be a "tremendous gamble." Why rush into something rash? And why settle for anything but a strictly 50-50 partnership? The British were not yet ready for a cross-Channel assault, anyway. The U.S., said Burt Wheeler, once took orders from Britain, but now seemed to be "following the demands of Mr. Stalin. . . . We ought to be extremely cautious before calling on American boys to make these tremendous sacrifices...
...have been practice for invasion. Or it might have been a calculated blow at some Nazi threat to coming invaders-or to England. Nazi propagandists and London censors, alike interested in concealing the precise nature of any such threat, encouraged the report that the target was a concentration of cross-Channel rocket guns...