Word: overruning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Iceland, whose Parliament began meeting on the sounding, desolate plains of Thingvellir (pronounced Thing-vod-lef) in 930 A.D., found itself overrun by British and U.S. soldiers, all with a healthy taste for blondes. Prices had risen 70% in less than a year and a half. Fishermen-fishing is Iceland's chief industry-netted almost as many mines as fish. The State liquor monopoly was being wrecked by bootlegging. Premier Hermann Jónasson's Cabinet had fallen twice in less than a month. The 1,011-year-old Parliament (the Althing) had rejected price-control plans...
...south the Germans threw their greatest effort against a little swampy neck of land only four miles wide. They were determined to crack the Perekop Isthmus and overrun the Crimean Peninsula, no matter what the cost...
Bermann-Fischer Verlag. Little or no exile publishing has been done in the U.S. in the languages of the smaller countries overrun by Hitler, or by antiFascists in Italian. Anti-Franco Spanish books are almost entirely published in Mexico and South America...
...pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spec off Montevideo in December 1939, enforced by inferior British vessels, was one of Britain's proudest episodes in the war. There were only two more of these Panzer ships, as the Germans call their 10,000-tonners designed to outgun or overrun every British ship of their weight. This cornered ship must be either the Admiral Scheer or the Lützow (formerly Deutschland...
...stories which follow this one detail some of the more interesting medical news which came last week out of Cleveland, a city overrun by suave, quiet, greying men, most of them in white shoes and snappy summer suits. They were 7,256 members of the American Medical Association, who gathered from all over the U.S. for their annual convention. If they were no better looking than run-of-the-mine conventioneers, they were definitely better behaved. Although the hotels were so jammed that latecomers were happy to get berths on an old lake steamer, the sessions were sober and earnest...