Word: lanyard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...underground, the 82nd Airborne Division captured intact Nijmegen Bridge-"Gateway to The Netherlands." In the fighting, most of the university was reduced to rubble; the retreating Germans deliberately fired the main building and shelled the library for 68 hours. When the 82nd went home in victory, wearing the orange lanyard of the Military Order of William, 800 paratroopers stayed behind, buried in Dutch soil...
...official, however, that the doughty old Briton had chalked "For Hitler-Personal" on a 360-lb. shell, then yanked a howitzer's lanyard to fire it over the lines. He had vainly tried to persuade a U.S. commander to let him ride a tank up to the Rhine across from enemy-held Dusseldorf. And he had observed that "one good strong heave" by all the Allies might bring...
...Captain Folster called for a slug of brandy, then ordered his men to abandon ship. As the boats pulled away and the ship settled in the water, ablaze from end to end, the survivors heard a weird sound. The skipper had propped himself up, got hold of the whistle lanyard with his good arm and sent his last salute−dot-dot-dot-dash−the Morse code V for Victory...
...Dougherty, brought up "Draftee," one of the 155-mm. rifles that the Allies have dubbed "Long Tom" and the Germans "Whispering Death." A truck hauled the heavy gun into position. The crew wrote their names on the first shell. A red-haired Tennessee private was about to yank the lanyard when the colonel came up and said: "Do you mind, son?" The private answered: "That's all right, sir." The colonel yanked. Seconds later the shell crashed into the San Gio vanni rail and ferry terminal. It was the first artillery shot fired on Italy...
...Jackson Day dinner, the traditional opening gun of the Presidential campaign, Franklin Roosevelt wanted this warning sounded to the dissenters in his Party. But since last autumn he has pledged himself to political appeasement, to all-round non-partisan harmony. He could not himself pull the lanyard of the opening gun. To him he called his favorite captain: Attorney General-Designate Robert Houghwout Jackson, the man Franklin Roosevelt thinks will some day be a great liberal U. S. President...