Word: hop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton, the Battle of Britain might have to be won on the ploughed fields of an island traditionally never more than a hop, skip & amp; a jump ahead of starvation. Into the fields last week Britain sent all her schoolchildren, rich & poor alike. The farming problem was acute...
...responsible airman was ready to hop up and announce that the British blitz against Germany was going to knock the Nazis out of the war. It had run in full power for only a few days. It had shown no more than the first signs that its local but effective destruction could be broadened until it might cut the heart out of German production and transportation, and out of the morale of the people...
Within the 400-mile (average) radius of pursuit, Britain is using Hurricanes fitted with bombs to hop nimbly through the Nazi anti-aircraft barrages by daylight and throw confusion and small-scale destruction into industrial and military establishments and their defenses...
Between known airdrome sites, fighters equipped with extra fuel tanks could easily hop the Atlantic to Northern Ireland. Their longest over-water hop would be about 950 miles, well within the range of this year's U.S. fighters...
...pole vaulter, had a tough afternoon. On his first trial jump, he twisted his ankle, as he fell, and thought he was out for the next two weeks. Although he later discovered that he was safe from the bench, he proceeded to smash his favorite pole on another trial hop...