Word: droppings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...newsmen, recognizing an old Rooseveltian device, let the matter drop. Once again, the President had used the press as a whipping boy; once again he had thrown the ball to a new Governmental agency after three others had quarreled. To bottle up further leaks, the President ordered Secretaries Morgenthau and Stimson not to talk, and both called off scheduled press conferences...
These difficulties, and the sudden realization that the war in Europe might run until next spring, caused a drop in public interest. It now appeared probable that a full-dress international conference of all nations, big & small, to form a new league would not be held until next year...
There had been about 8,000 men in the First Airborne Division when red-bereted Major General Robert Eliot Urquhart made the drop with them to seize the bridge over the Lek (TIME, Oct. 2). Last week, when they came out after nine terrible days & nights, about 2,000 of them were left-exhausted, nerve-shattered men, many burned and many wounded. They had been through probably more concentrated hell than any Allied soldiers had yet faced in the West. They were beaten men, too, but they were not beaten in spirit...
...previous week, the Russians themselves had finally started to drop food and ammunition. This week they continued. And from the south came what may well have been the most useful aid: Mediterranean Air Force planes carried loads of German ammunition captured in Italy, to fit German guns captured in Warsaw...
Suddenly the surface fire slackens as the air strike begins. Flights of carrier planes swoop in from the north: dive bombers circle in the sun and plunge down almost vertically to drop their crumps. Avengers roar in low and you can see strings of slim black bombs drop out of their bellies. They make fat, black mushroom patterns along the length of the target. Then Hell cats flash over, tearing the sky with heavy machine-gun strafing...