Word: got
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Belgian pursuit pilots, protecting their neutrality, got into a dogfight with two British bombers, forced down one, shot down another. One of the Belgian ships went down in flames after its crew had bailed out. Britain made an apology, its second in the week for British pilots who apparently had lost their way. (In the earlier instance the apology was for a pilot who dropped a bomb on an apartment in Esbjerg, Denmark, apparently during the raid on Brunsbüttel.) Neutral observers began to wonder whether the navigation training of British airmen, confined to the narrow limits...
Britain's first air-raid scare produced two flatly conflicting stories passed through the censor to the U. S. before the War Office's own propaganda agency (under oldtime Hackwriter Ian Hay) got out the third or "official version" (see p. 15). Foreign correspondents were driven into a frenzy by the slow and clumsy handling of news of the torpedoing of the Athenia; Britain's feat-of-the-week, the bombings of German naval bases, was announced as laconically as the results of target practice; in line with British belief that false hopes should not be raised...
...passage to Palestine where he will join the Jewish Legion. An eye-witness to Hitler's 1923 beer-hall Putsch, Actor Muenz gibed: "I was in the street when the machine guns began to fire. Immediately Hitler was down on his face. His General, Franz Ritter von Epp, got disgusted and shouted: 'What's the matter with you? You are supposed to be a soldier. Stand up. The people want to see you. . . .' [Hitler] was a simple, very simple, sick, no crazy man. ... I'd love to kill...
Last week, as World War II became a reeking reality, radio, the war correspondent, got the jitters...
...daily round of war capitals, NBC got through one night to Warsaw. Mendel Mozes, correspondent for the Jewish Telegraph Agency in Poland, wasted no time getting down to the details of his visit to the Nazi-bombed Centos Society home for Jewish children near