Word: outruns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Readers Basilico, Jaffe, et al. never hear, then, of the great Finn MacCool (TIME, Nov. 1) ? He was well known to have lepped the width of Ireland (115 Sassenach miles) in three jumps, and could outrun a hare or a stag itself, and he merely moving his legs gently, the way he'd be restoring his circulation...
Finn MacCool was first & foremost a fighter (he killed Aillin, a goblin who was annoying Ireland) but he also took a little exercise for fun. He could outrun a hare or stag, and he could wing a wild duck with the first stone from his sling. He could jump the width of Ireland (115 miles) in three "leps." Finn once licked two hurling teams singlehanded. They ganged up on him (as hurling players still do) but he killed seven and chased the rest away. Next day he found them swimming. They dared him to come in. Finn drowned them...
...they were long on offensive weapons, short on transport. Nevertheless they threw "a couple of brigades and a blade of armor" toward Tunis. They traveled in two columns. One reached Mateur, the other Tebourba, 20 and 18 miles from Bizerte and Tunis respectively. By then the advance forces had outrun transport and air support so far that they had no punch left. The bold gamble failed. German counter-attacks drove the forces back, and the First Army settled down to a winter term of schooling in warfare...
Camp v. Camp. Many a Friend believes that Philosopher Blanshard has "outrun his Guide" and landed plump in the middle of an "unsoundness." But there is little chance that Quakers will disown him. His views too clearly reflect the peculiar conflicting feelings of Friends toward World War II. Several Quaker families have one son in uniform, another in a C.O. camp. One Philadelphia Meeting has as many young members in one as the other, corresponds with them all. Last spring a Long Island Meeting wrote this facing-both-ways sentiment into its minutes: "We hold in equal respect any member...
...enthusiastic TD men, all this is kid stuff. Except for some new, secret destroyers which the General is trying out for the Army, it is all too slow. Their dream is a 65-m.p.h. gun with practically no heavy protection. If it is fast enough to outrun the tanks, they argue, it will not need the armor anyway. Conversely, slowing a destroyer down with the weight of armor only makes armor necessary. As one of the General's men says: "The idea is if Joe Louis is sitting in the corner with his back turned, you hit him behind...