Word: hipper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...puffing along after such speedy Columbia performers as Goverhali, or at best making weighty lunges in the direction of the ball carriers. A good part of the time our linesmen didn't have the slightest idea who the ball-carrier was: rather demoralizing. Knowing Dick Harlow's propensity for hipper-dipper deception, I shudder to think of the perplexed expressions that will cross the Tiger's brow a week from Saturday...
Putting her trust in her honey-blonde hair, a little seashore hipper-dipper, and the eye-brimming distinction she imparts to the plainest photographic studies, 20-year-old Gloria Wood, star-minded daughter of Director Sam Wood (Kitty Foyle), petitioned in Los Angeles court for permission to discard her cinemagic name, call herself just K. T. Stevens...
...week long the R. A. F. answered this new fury with fury, by hitting out at U-boat bases and airfields along the French and Lowlands coast. In a two-hour raid on Brest they caught an Admiral Hipper class heavy cruiser repairing in dock. But though concentrating on submarine bases, the R. A. F. showed that it was still taking the long view. It was officially stated that the Short Stirling bomber, for which the British claim the best speed-range-load performance yet, was in service. It was unofficially guessed that the plane which flew to Cracow, Poland...
Berwick v. Hipper. Somewhere in the North Atlantic on Christmas morning, the fast 10,000-ton British cruiser Berwick gave chase to a Nazi raider which attacked the Berwick's convoy with torpedo and shellfire. In stormy murk the enemy, which the British guessed by its speed to be a cruiser of the Admiral Hipper class, got away, but not without an 8-inch hit amidships from the Berwick. The latter also sustained damage (five casualties) but remained at sea. During the chase, the Berwick came upon the raider's supply ship, the freighter Baden, which set herself...
...Narvik, for example, at daybreak the battle cruiser Renown sighted the German battleship Scharnhorst escorted by the 10,000-ton cruiser Admiral Hipper. "The sea was running very high," First Lord of the Admiralty Churchill later explained. "Gales were blowing furiously, but our battle cruiser opened fire at 18,000 yards and after three minutes the enemy replied. The enemy almost immediately turned away and after nine minutes the Renown observed hits forward of the superstructure of the German...