Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...drive into Egypt, Britain's defense-minded military expert, Captain Basil Henry Liddell Hart, wrote some extremely interesting words about defending the Western Desert of Egypt. The narrow coastal route, he said, was badly exposed to naval bombardment and concentrated air attack, and badly confined by its escarpment parallel to the shore. That later proved true...
...pocked with countless craters. The natives call them "bays," perhaps be cause bay trees grow among the pine forests which often cover the swampy depressions, making them scarcely noticeable-they can be seen clearly only from the air. The craters are usually rimmed with sand, oval in shape, parallel and varying from a few hundred yards to three miles in longest diameter...
...called it the Office of Price Administration and Civilian Supply: OPACS. He established it parallel to and not under OPM, with its chief equal to Knudsen-hillman...
...minutes after midnight the Reconnaissance Troop had pulled out of the pine-shadowed reservation at Benning, was far south when the rest of the outfit turned out of bed at 3 a.m. and got ready to move. By dawn the whole outfit was rumbling south toward Florida on parallel roads. In approach-to-battle formation, trucks rumbled 100 yards apart; machine gunners stood with their eyes on the skies getting the habit of watching for planes; soldiers of the three infantry regiments rode in trucks (soon to be replaced by 603 troop carriers with caterpillar treads). Each infantry outfit...
...widow, Vickers-Armstrongs and the Air Ministry. Also interested is Hollywood Producer Walter Wanger, who has a representative in London arranging for a movie about the American Eagle Squadron. Laurence Olivier, back in England after a long spell in the U.S., is now at work on 49th Parallel, a thriller about the battle against the submarines. Ships with Wings is the title for a Fleet Air Arm production of Michael Balcon, the stormy producer who last year called Hollywood's British colony deserters for remaining...