Word: duckings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Duck...
...Rhine, captured Stuttgart and suddenly leaped south to the heavily guarded Swiss border, trapping some thousands of Germans in the Black Forest. The French also reached Lake Constance, not long after four boatloads of guilt-stricken Nazis had fled to the eastern end of the lake, where they could duck into the Alpine bastion. A few frantic latecomers, who reached the dock just as the last boat was pulling out, jumped into the water and tried to swim after...
...Night. Impatient of routine and red tape, Patton habitually asks and gets the impossible from his supply men. During the winter bog-down on the Saar front, the Third's tanks floundered in the greasy mud. Someone recommended "duck bills"-metal flanges to be welded to tank treads to give them wider grip. Patton tried to get them, "through channels," and finally got 168 duck bills- enough to equip one tank. Next day four companies of the Third's ordnance mechanics, about 1,000 men, were set to work on scrapped treads and other material. Patton wanted duck...
Fiorello H. LaGuardia, New York City's furious duck of a mayor, did an unwitting disservice to Hugo LaGuardia, 17 (no kin), when Hugo was arrested for playing catch with a glass plate at Coney Island. Hugo paid a fine of $3 ($2 more than his pitching partner) because, as the judge put it: "Any man who has the family name of LaGuardia must be particularly careful of what he does...
...next phase. There were some paratroopers hanging in the trees and they were murdered by the Germans. They were shot twenty times. It is fine in practice if you land in a tree but if there is a guy with a gun shooting at you you are a dead duck. I started getting out of my harness. Then somebody started shooting at me and I started a beautiful long Hungarian swear. The guy next to me said: 'Don't start those Jewish prayers now. They won't do you any more good...