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Word: osnabr (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...hopping into the Channel under cover of dark and big guns. That a nest of these big guns festered at Cap Gris Nez, where the Channel is narrowest. That behind the vessels and guns thousands of troops were being moved up; and behind the troops supplies were based on Osnabrück, Mannheim, Aachen, Mann, Krefeld. That the invasion might come from any direction, not excepting Eire. That Hermann Göring was personally directing the Luftwaffe and that Commander in Chief of the Land Forces Field Marshal Walther von Brauchitsch had moved up to "inspect" troops. That the tides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF BRITAIN: No Longer a Bluff | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

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