Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...such stocks, nor other regions to which Europe could turn for food. Japs still held most of Asia's food exporting areas. Drought held South America, South Africa, Australia (TIME, March 26). The U.S. and Canada, after alltime peaks of food production last year, expected a slight drop this year...
...transport pilots and correspondents flying as observers it seemed that the operation was moving at the unreal pace of a speeded-up movie. Within 30 seconds the drop had begun, German flak opened up, colored equipment parachutes dotted the ground, a white parachute was hung up in a tree, a big Hamilcar (British) glider lay on its back, broken and burning...
Airborne's next show was the Arnhem drop, a bold effort to turn the German defenses on the lower Rhine. That gamble failed gallantly when the British ist Airborne, key division of the offensive, was badly cut up and finally forced to retire. Whatever the true explanation, nothing will ever persuade airborne men that the failure was not caused primarily by overcautious use of Field Marshal Montgomery's armor, which never broke through to relieve the beleaguered British division...
...dropped at 1025, four miles north of the Rhine. Our plane was a hell of a lot hit before we got out of it. Those troop-carrier command boys deserve a hell of a lot of credit. They have to drop their men at 600 feet and that is too low for them to get out themselves and so they have to turn around and nurse that plane back and sometimes they do and sometimes they don't, but they always drop their sticks of men. The Germans had small arms and small antiaircraft fire but compared...
...heart was burned out of four cities, among the six largest in Japan.* B-29 commanders insisted that this was not "area bombing" of the sort practiced by the British in Europe, but rather "precision-area bombing," with the target area outlines carefully drawn, and every effort made to drop every aimable cluster of M69 incendiary bombs within that area...