Word: farthest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rounding up his new band, Scott was permitted, to pick Negro as well as white players. One of his programs, Jump Time, clings to the bouncier forms of jazz. Another, Pan American Hot Spot, has a Latin accent. Farthest off the beaten track is Secret Seven, a working laboratory for some of Scott's more outlandish ideas, out of which in a few weeks may come a more imposing program: The CBS Academy of Hot Music...
...plain, patriot guerrillas are so active that the Germans have acknowledged the necessity of sending flotillas down the Danube to fight them; 4) in the Croat forests, an underground peasant organization, Zeleni Kadar (Green Quarters), resists both the Germans and their puppet terrorist, Ante Pavelich; 5) Slovenes in the farthest northern section resist when possible; 6) in old Montenegro, a Communist-led guerrilla army controls the capital, Cetinje, and surrounding territory...
Three days later the R.A.F. was back in the saddle with its farthest-ranging daylight raid of the war, a daring assault on Danzig, some 800 miles from Britain. Squadrons of giant four-motored Lancasters swept down on the former Free City in the early evening, while it was still daylight, to dump heavy bomb cargoes on submarine-building yards and other targets. Other squadrons simultaneously attacked Flensburg, another U-boat spawning ground at the Danish-German frontier. Unofficial statements that three bombers missing from the operation constituted a loss of less than 5% was indication that something over...
There was no doubt that the raid was costly. Dead were well over a hundred valuable Commando-fighters, sunk (according to German claims) were 13 British motor gunboats and torpedo ships. But the British were well satisfied. On their farthest Commando raid of the war, they had, they were confident, knocked out the only Atlantic port big enough to drydock the battleship Tirpitz, the dock that had once held the once-mighty Normandie, the busiest pen for Nazi subs. The raid was soothing to Britain's invasion boosters, too. To many of them it seemed that the British brass...
...Where he set up headquarters in the front line's farthest fringe, refused to take advice to move back, left only when German artillery found his range...