Word: high
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just before midnight a Polish major arrived with the required order from General Rommel, set off escorted by a group of German officers for Modlin. Two German privates held high between two poles a broad white banner lit by glaring portable searchlights. Modlin was given until 6 a. m. to hoist a white flag of surrender, but failed to do so, and heavy German bombardment at once began. This continued until 7 a. m., when Modlin finally hoisted the white flag. In front of Warsaw the "stop firing" order had been given on both sides...
Dutchmen heard the German theorists passing overhead to their laboratory, the North Sea. High-flying bombers, moving above the autumn lanes of migratory wildfowl, but in the opposite direction, sought out a squadron of the British Navy which they evidently knew was out maneuvering in open water, or which they just happened to find there. Weather favored the fliers when they located their targets: clouds low enough to afford a screen for the dive bombers to come down through, yet not so solid but that heavy, non-diving bombers could drop "stuff" from far aloft through cloud holes...
...Churchill's office retorted to the first German claim: Yes, a formation of German bombers had passed over a squadron of British warboats which were escorting home a disabled British submarine. The Nazis dropped bombs, but hit nothing. British high-angle guns and planes from a carrier shot down one bomber, injured another, forced a third to alight so that its crew was captured. The Isle of May story, said the Admiralty, was "another version of the North Sea lie" and probably referred to the fact that a Nazi bomber had plunked that day at a British destroyer...
Bombing battleships in motion on the high seas was proved possible and, to the vessel, disastrous, as long ago as 1920 by the late General "Billy" Mitchell of the U. S., who bombed the condemned ex-German battleship Ostfriesland off the Virginia Capes. During the Spanish Civil War, Loyalist bombers put the German Deutschland out of commission. First British air raid of World War II was on battleships anchored in Wilhelmshaven, Cuxhaven and Brunsbüttel, with the sinking of one and damaging of another battleship claimed. Last week the Royal Air Force retorted to the Nazis' North...
...canny appraisal of the ins & outs of popular song-singing may well make it the aspiring mike-moaner's Bible. Do you want to make big money singing songs for the U. S. radio and cinema public? Then stay away from highbrow vocal teachers, never mind your high C ("Many girls have made fortunes without ever coming within an octave of it"). Concentrate on naturalness and intimacy. Learn how to act at auditions, how to win fans and influence producers...