Word: parceled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that Nazi General Hermann Balck had hastily committed his best units to action in order to keep the German High Command from taking them away. Balck had two or more Panzer or Panzer grenadier divisions, one of mountain troops from Norway, one of SS infantry, one of paratroops-a parcel of the Wehrmacht's best...
...sycamores that he sees on his walks. The great houses where so much of the history was made, the letters that the history makers and their wives wrote, the diaries they kept, the gardens they planted, the poems they wrote, the music they loved-all this is part & parcel of the environment that the Englishman is at peace with, and whose value and savor Professor Rowse celebrates...
...means original with Hitchcock, the McGuffin is a hoary British joke about a parcel-toting man on a train meeting another man, who inquires...
...What's in the parcel...
South of the Philippines, U.S. troops picked up another small parcel of Pacific real estate, this time the tiny Mapia Islands off Dutch New Guinea. Presumably they were taken as flank protection for the U.S. air base on Biak. Meanwhile U.S. Liberator bombers flew 800 miles to bomb the important Japanese naval base at Brunei Bay on the far side of Borneo, scoring five hits on a battleship, four on a cruiser. Both ships, presumably cripples or survivors of last month's naval battle, were left blazing...