Word: overnights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This fact documents Editor & Publisher's assertion: "There is no doubt but that this opinion would change overnight following an overt act on the part of any of the Axis powers...
...Army considers 14 miles a day good speed, 16 miles exceptional. There have been few more spectacular marches. During the siege of Gergovia, Caesar's men marched 50 miles in one day, fought a battle, marched back next day; but that one was an overnight stunt. Napoleon's crack Imperial Guard marched 33 miles a day for 13 days in the campaign against Prussia, 1806. World's record for sustained marching belongs to Alexander, who after the Battle of Arbela, 331 B.C., pushed his infantry 36½ miles a day for eleven days...
...Nearly completed were negotiations for eleven air-base sites on the vulnerable Atlantic hump of Brazil. Nominally, these new fields are to be built and operated by Pan American Airways. Actually, they will be constantly available for overnight occupation by U.S. military air forces. Two similar fields are also to be placed in Paraguay...
...nonetheless consents to fly to Lisbon with him. Says she: "I knew he loved me the minute he told me I smelled good." Plane seats for this clandestine journey are miraculously proffered by the Earl after she remarks: "I'm only going to be there overnight." Observes he: "That ought...
...Benchley, as he stumbles through the Disney plant, Disneyacs can peek briefly into the bag of goodies in store for them. There are glimpses of a forthcoming full-length cartoon about a baby circus elephant named Dumbo whose enormous ears mortify him to tears until he becomes an overnight sensation by learning to fly with them; of another full-lengther, Bambi, and its leading man, a little white-tailed fawn; of Donald Duck down on the farm...