Word: humping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Italians could not run fast enough last week. The fall of Bengasi was brought about by swift execution of the familiar tactic of the giant pincer. While the main Australian force chased Italians along the coast, a mechanized force branched across the hump of Cyrenaica to form the pincer's nether jaw. This body, meeting little resistance other than a sandstorm which choked carburetors as well as throats, headed for a spot about 50 miles south of Bengasi-just below Soluch, the southern terminus of a short railway spur which runs down the coast from Bengasi. The British force...
With Dérna such a cinch, the British prepared to press for Bengasi, in hope of catching the other half of Graziani's ragged army. Patrols worked along the coast and also cut straight across the hump (see map). With luck, General Sir Archibald Percival Wavell and his merry men might pull off the most surprising total victory in this war of many surprises...
Last minute polls and other surveys gave President Roosevelt a slight hump on the popular vote. They agreed generally, too, that Wendell L. Willkie must win the electorial votes of the "big four" states New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois and Ohio--if he is to triumph...
...Harvard football squad went over the last big pre-season scrimmage hump yesterday afternoon in a 20 minute tiff with a stubborn Freshman squad. The Varsity managed to push across a touchdown in a series of seven plays but was forced to take to the air for the last nine yards of the way, Helman to Forte for the counter...
Mount Sinai of Mormonism is the Hill Cumorah, a red-clay glacial hump near Palmyra in western New York. On Hill Cumorah, in September 1827, the Angel Moroni handed down the Word to a strapping, 21-year-old farmer-visionary named Joseph Smith, in the form of a book written on golden plates and a Urim and Thummim (stones fastened in silver bows) which enabled him to translate it. The result of Seer Smith's labors was the Book of Mormon, which ever since has been the treasured gospel of the sect he founded, the Church of Jesus Christ...