Word: hunted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British, Canadian and American navies at last have enough escort vessels to do two things: provide defensive cover for the convoys and hunt down any submarines which may approach...
Britons regarded last week's breach of the safe conduct as an incident in a Nazi hunt for Winston Churchill, en route to England from North America and North Africa. For Leslie Howard, this probability had made a fine curtain...
...worries, but it was the most chronic. A people whose "nationalism does not whisper because their country is small," the Albanians had never accepted the Fascist conquest of 1939. Now patriot resistance, fanned by new hope, was mounting. It could be measured by Rome's frantic hunt for a popular puppet leader. For Prime Minister in Tirana Mussolini chose tricky, turncoat Ekrem Libohova, once ex-King Zog's Foreign Minister. This was Albania's fourth "government...
Norway. Explosions in Oslo harbor sank two ships, damaged two more. The powerful Norsk hydroelectric plant at Rjukan was blown up. German occupation forces used planes to hunt down and strafe civilians who daily fled over the rocky frontier into Sweden. Two more leading quislings were killed...
HARVARD--Kempner, fg; Anderson, 3/4; Hathaway, 3/4; Millett, 3/4; Millard, 3/4; Scully, sh; Ausnit, soh; Winter, f; Petchek, f; Gaviglio, f; Parish, f; Carruthers, f; Dawson, f; Lucas, f; Hunt...