Word: humping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...state of despair." Richard Burt was harsher: "Nitze's utterly spooked; he's gone around the bend; he's panicking; he's falling apart." To Nitze's face, Burt said, "Relax. The trouble will die down once we get over the hump at the end of the year...
...broad outlines of Germany's assault began to take shape. Recapture of what was Germany in 1914 was the first objective: Danzig, the Corridor, and a hump of Upper Silesia. It is believed that Adolf Hitler, if allowed to take this much, might have checked his juggernaut at these lines. When Britain & France insisted that he withdraw entirely from Polish soil, he determined on the complete subjugation of Poland...
DIED. William Henry Tunner, 76, Air Force general and genius of military air transport; of heart disease; in Gloucester, Va. He commanded three of the 20th century's historic airlifts: the World War II cargo transport over the Himalayan "Hump" from India to China, the massive 1948-49 Berlin operation that moved 13,000 tons a day of coal and food to the Soviet-blockaded city, and the Korean War's Combat Cargo Command that air-dropped supplies to U.S. troops trapped in North Korea by the Chinese...
...just couldn't seem to break that hump," Ferry said...
Between 1927 and 1937, Morse established some 30 churches and baptized 2,000 converts. Evacuated to Burma again during World War II, Morse advised the Allies to use a different and safer air route to fly the "Hump" over the Himalayas to Kunming. Meanwhile, young Robert organized tribes to assist airmen who crashed. The family returned to China for a third postwar tour; Eugene was imprisoned briefly in 1949, after the Communists seized power, and his father was held in solitary confinement and tortured for more than 15 months. The family remained undaunted. Says Robert...