Word: midget
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sept. 22 British midget submarines in Norway's Alten Fjord rammed some torpedoes into Germany's greatest battleship, the 40,000-ton Tirpitz, left her floating in her own oil and out of commission for many months...
...ships to land troops in Korea, to victual their beachheads. In 1904-05, Togo aimed to reinforce the Jap beachhead in Manchuria; his brilliant destruction of the Russian fleet was incidental to the main strategy. Similarly, in 1941, the attack on Pearl Harbor by naval aircraft and a few midget submarines was incidental to the main blows in Southeast Asia. Since then, from Midway to the Coral Sea, Jap admirals have risked their craft only to protect or extend beachheads...
...Evacuation involved destroying equipment and installations. In some cases the Japs did a good job. Three midget submarines, which long ago had been taken out of the ocean into pens, had their bellies blown out. Many containers of food had been jabbed with bayonets and stank from spoilage...
...horses were shod in emergency blacksmith shops (it takes from two to three hours to shoe a harness horse: each shoe is put on at a different angle). Harness makers, like ambulant country storekeepers, set up business outside their trailers. Bearded drivers displaced Empire's familiar, flashy midget jockeys in white duck...
...There are midget Hitlers here who continually attack labor. There are other demagogues, blind to the errors of every other group, who shout, 'We love labor, but. . . .' Both the midget Hitlers and the demagogues are enemies of America...