Word: gantlets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germans ran a super-gantlet: the British Home Fleet, the Fleet Air Arm, the entire R.A.F., the big guns of Dover, minefields. The Germans were not driven into this corridor of hell; they chose it. And when they were safely through, it was the British who were bloody. The British had lost 20 bombers, 16 fighters and six torpedo planes, had suffered heavy damage to at least one destroyer. The Germans admitted losing 28 planes, which they might do in a day of raiding along the Kentish coast...
...Prime Minister's sal lies. When it was all over, the House of Commons approved his policy by a vote of 447-to-3 (the House of Lords had given him a unanimous vote of confidence), and in quitting the chamber he had to run a gantlet of cheering M.P.s...
Rumanians heard how ex-King Carol had behaved when the eleven-car special train on which he fled ran a gantlet of pro-Nazi Iron Guardist gunfire at Timisoara railroad station. Carol had jumped into a bathtub while bullets smashed windows (see cut), killed an engineer, wounded the station master. At the same time, Carol's former Lord Chamberlain Ernest Udarianu had flung his foppish self under a table. Beyond the frontier Carol gave the train crew $2 apiece. One man refused...
...gantlet-not actually running, but striding proudly as an Indian brave who would be dishonored if he once winced or cringed or even hurried: looking his foes in the eyes, leaving them ashamed and respectful...
...armed members of the Iron Guard (Ku Klux Rumanian organization) roughly asked the stationmaster whether the train would stop at Timisoara. "Yes, I swear it," he replied, but slyly managed to dot-dash from his station a warning to Carol II that his only chance was to run the gantlet of the Iron Guard...