Word: getting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Where the Allemande can't get...
Over all the front from Luxembourg to Switzerland the German forces were ominously quiet. During the fore part of the week Allied soldiers were busy with endless patrolling, laid a few ambushes and made a few raids to get prisoners for questioning by their intelligence officers. But toward week's end came sounds from the German line that Allied officers liked less than the boom of German guns...
...know why the American Spitzbuben [young rascals] detained us,' he said. 'I am pledged that the enemy shall not get us. I would rather go down and shoot myself...
...machines, Air Chief Marshal Sir Cyril Louis Norton Newall was last week one of the hardest working men in Europe. From nine o'clock sharp until dusk each day he conferred with Sir Kingsley Wood, with air counsellors, plane manufacturers, training experts. Most nights he did not get home for dinner, some nights did not get there to sleep...
...days, Editor Kopetzky listened to Murrow in London, Grandin in Paris, Jordan in Berlin, etc., was struck with the costly time devoted by U. S. broadcasters to innocent prattle about London weather, etc. With the unfailing suspicion of a Winchell-bred newshawk, he dispatched an undercover man to get the inside story...