Word: dynamos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fighter Group, he organized the offensives of 1941-42 which whittled away Germany's onetime fighter superiority over western France, and directed the air support for the Dieppe raid in August 1942. Admiral Ramsay is a tough, slit-mouthed, energetic officer who well deserves his nickname "Dynamo," pinned on him in 1940 after he had directed the almost-miraculous evacuation of Dunkirk (code name for which was "Operation Dynamo...
...Ecuador Dynamo Segura had swept every tournament this summer; his opponent, 22-year-old Coast Guardsman Kramer, former Men's Doubles titleholder, not only had not seen a grass court all year but had suddenly developed a case of what Ellsworth Vines called "ptomaine nerves" (nervous stomach). Lank, lackadaisical Jack Kramer slouched around the court; pigeontoed, muttering, gesticulating Segura crouched like a predatory biped, gave everything Kramer hit a run for its money. Kramer, rejecting the tempo agitato, dropped the first set 2-6, suddenly found the touch and raced through the next three sets...
...first played with the skull of a hated Dane) soccer fans pack stadiums seating 100,000 to 150,000. In Moscow a few years ago 2,000,000 fans applied for tickets to an international match between Turkey's No. 1 team and Moscow's beloved Dynamo Club (Russia's New York Yankees...
...Milo Komenich, like Boykoff one of the season's leading scorers (401 points) and one of the few Eiffel-tower basketballers who can really play the game. The Cowboys also had a supporting cast all at least 6 ft. 3-with one exception. The exception, a little dynamo named Kenny Sailors, made it tough for St. John...
...reporter had posed a familiar question about General Charles de Gaulle's Rightist connections (which have worried some, pleased others). But it transformed M. Guigui into a dynamo of sudden eloquence...