Word: detach
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...food as she came down the stairs to sell her famous miniature nickel-plated batches. Students pressed around her, offering her cigars and cigarettes, and feigning great surprise when she struck, their smokes wrathfully to the ground. One student made a grab at her bonnet, but was unable to detach...
...watched, half afraid that our men would fall into a trap. But down there below us was a crafty young officer. We could see him detach himself with three soldiers from the rest of the men and go forward in a low crouch, shifting from side to side, as if they were bloodhounds sniffing a trail. Suddenly 50 yards from the trench the officer's hand flew out by his side and urgently motioned his men to lie down. Then the officer crawled forward through the bare wheat and around small rocks...
...ceremonies begin at 10:45 when the WAVES, regulars, and specialists will file into the auditorium. The speakers soon will follow and then the diplomas from the Navy Supply Corps will be given out. After the "G" and "S" commissions are distributed the group will detach and file...
Administration leaders had sought to detach the rider and obtain separate votes on it and the main measure. Their failure presages a floor clash between them and backers of Rep. Wesley E. Disney, D., Okia., sponsor of the amendment, who calls it the first wedge in a drive against "government by directive...
Without a Red army keeping the Germans engaged on the eastern front, Hitler would be free to detach a major part of his troops for use elsewhere. The problems of a second front in Europe would be enormously enlarged, for there would be no first front. German control of the Eurasian land mass would outflank Africa, surround China, leave Britain and the Americas islands in the west facing a terrible struggle to rebuild the world...