Word: hops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British Somaliland, so as to clear the rear. This gave the Italians a strong clutch on the Red Sea's mouth and western coast. In order further to dominate that sea, through which British supplies and reinforcements were still running last week, the Italians were preparing to hop on to Britain's Perim Island, in the narrow Straits of Bab el Mandeb. An all-out dive-bombing assault would make Perim practically untenable. This week the Italians staged their first big bombing attack on the island...
German pilots shot down last week admitted they had had as little as 45 hours of solo flying, and men with 100 hours considered themselves seasoned fighters. But there was an ominous interpretation even for this hope: poorly trained men were being deliberately used for short-hop, preliminary suicide bombing, the veterans being saved for something fiercer. So far as anyone knew, Hermann Goring, who was reported this week to have piloted a Junkers bomber over London, had not yet this week taken the wraps off a great big package: the Fourth Air Army...
...Hop in," said Norman Phillips. With his passenger he speeded back to Huntsville, where he had passed a detachment of Canadian troops parading to church. As he pulled into the town, he saw them still marching jauntily up the street. As the car slowed, his passenger jumped out and started walking fast, away from the highway...
...When Hop & crew walked the plank last winter into reorganization, A. G. & E. Corporation (which controls the $1,000,000,000 system's operating properties) and A. G. & E. Company (which used to control CORP.) became charges of New York Federal Judge Vincent Leibell, with SEC looking on. To insure impartiality, Judge Leibell appointed a separate trustee for Co., because its future (apart from its minority interest in some of CORP.'S junior bonds) depends on what it can get out of suing CORP. Objective of the suit: back in 1933, Hoppy had tried to escape...
...Sometimes at dawn turkeys go "high-stepping." With lifted wings they hop, jump up & down, then spring forward. During this "Turkey Trot," the hens sing "quit, quit," while the gobblers make high-pitched rattles "like a hard wood stick scraped rapidly along a picket fence...