Word: fiats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Spotters caught the enemy in focus. Archies opened up. The first roar had not died when a roar of British throats took its place. Down the sky like an aimless maple-seed pod fluttered a crippled Fiat. Two parachutes opened and floated down. They were seen to land on the sea, but the gear dragged the pilots down before a destroyer could gaff them...
...fanning and pinching mechanized columns. There was only one Italian drive. The Italian commander, Marshal Rodolfo Graziani, used Foch's plan of "applying superior force at one point." From Fort Capuzzo in Libya (see map}), fortnight ago, started the Italian spearhead-a long thin line of light Fiat tanks in Indian file, three infantry regiments, including many blacks, a machine-gun battalion, a company equipped with mortars, an artillery regiment with heavier 10-centimetre Ansaldos and Vickers 15.2s, two sapper companies with well-drilling and road-building equipment, a communications company with water trucks, two mopping...
MAYHEM IN B-FiAT-Elliot Paul-Random House ($2). Moritz the miraculous Boxer (a dog) makes his debut with the familiar cast of Homer Evans, detective, dead-eye Miriam, Inspector Fremont and his dusky Hydrangea, Hjalmar Jansen the crockery smasher, the Singe, Godo the Whack, et al., roister-doistering from Paris to Rouen and back by water, land and haystack. Funniest murder story yet from veteran Mr. Paul, whose higher-browed books include The Life & Death of a Spanish Town...
Next day the British Air Ministry solemnly announced that no planes of theirs did any shooting that day over Tobruch. Thus the Italian people were left free to wonder if one of the most popular candidates to succeed II Duce fell under the fire of an Italian Fiat...
Waiting-for-Christmas. Before going out of action, the French joined the British in giving Italy a copious taste of air-bombing at Turin (home of Fiat motors), Milan and Venice. French cruisers and destroyers shelled the Ligurian coast (San Remo to Elba), the Italians replying with coast guns and torpedoes, claiming two destroyers struck...