Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germans in Yugoslavia seemed to be rapidly closing the dangerous Dalmatian gap in the wall of Axis Europe. Credit for this achievement went to Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, whose command in northern Italy was recently extended to include Yugoslavia...
Gradually the troopship drew away and at the end of the jetty that white-clad figure started Auld Lang Syne. As the gap grew, just snatches of the words came to us, and finally, just a picture of that solitary figure in white waving to us, and we swear she was still singing. We may forget many things of this war, but never the songs of Durban's lady in white. (From a magazine published on board a British troopship en route to India some time...
Crime 251, War 145. The story took shape at a crawl, at first looked more Ellery Queenish than it was. But when the last replate went to bed at 3 a.m., the News had its picture and coverage with only one gap in it: there was nothing much about Patricia's husband, R.C.A.F. Cadet Wayne Lonergan...
...wore while the plain folk marched in garrisons was not the manifestation of rugged individualism. He had misplaced the other job, and had nothing else to wear, it says here . . . thoughts while strolling, as the immortal McIntyre used to write--wonder when Bill Ingram is going to get that gap filled? . . . Altitudinal Donald Dennis has become the father of another baby girl. That makes two now . . . Arthur Bornfriend has quieted down considerably and hasn't time for billiards anymore. You shouldn't have to be told that he's a married man now . . . John Gobeille got back from...
...gap in the thick overcast had opened up just in time to let Arpaia do his act. Even that miracle would have been wasted except for the quick efficiency of the bombardier, his teammate Navigator Dick Davisson, and their pilot, Captain Vernon Iverson. Arpaia, Davisson and Iverson are one of the crack teams that guide the massed Fortress flights over Europe. Such teams are used sparingly; on them depends the mission's success, for under the new bombing system only the bombardier of the lead Fortress and a few others scattered through the formation do the actual sighting...