Word: foraying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Near Future. The crumpled Giretsu attack was part of a major Japanese air offensive on Okinawa. Eleven light naval units were damaged and a total of seven U.S. planes lost, but the foray cost the slipping Japanese air force 166 planes...
Last fortnight, with a weekend dance coming up and Easter in the offing, Elva decided on another foray. But by that time the word had been passed around the Kansas City stores to watch out for strange blondes. When Elva sauntered into Peck's department store and ordered $32.12 worth of bracelet charms "to help make a charming personality," the clerk got suspicious. When she appeared at another counter, under another name, to order a black formal and a blue street outfit, the floor manager did some quick checking. Next night, when the dance began, Elva was in jail...
Adding Up. Meanwhile, the great foray of the Third Fleet became the thundering climax of an air campaign that by all signs added up to a preparation for Douglas MacArthur's return to the Philippines. It had begun weeks ago with a series of far-flung operations, seemingly unrelated...
...next day one of his task groups sent its planes against Aparri in northern Luzon, a Jap landing point in the days of defeat in December 1941. It was a feint as well as a destructive foray. The following day, his main body struck Formosa, stoutest of the Japanese bases outside the homeland...
Last February the hefty Nevadan armed himself for the next foray with a huge tomahawk: a Senate Resolution empowering him to investigate any of the 3,374 presidential executive orders issued since March 4, 1933. With this power tucked in his belt, Pat McCarran sat quietly in the wigwam of his Senate Judiciary Committee, biding his time...