Word: pocketing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fierceness and doggedness of German resistance on the sector east of Aachen were epitomized by their defense of a sports stadium outside the town of Jülich. U.S. Ninth Army headquarters last fortnight had airily ticked it off as one of "a few pockets of resistance" remaining to be cleaned up west of the Roer River. To the doughfoots of the 29th Infantry, who had to clean it up, it was quite a pocket...
...supply a diversion for an attempted breakout from their pocket in northwestern Leyte, the enemy dropped parachutists from a score of planes (twin-engined transports resembling the DC-3) in the area west of Dulag, and especially around Burauen airfield. U.S. antiaircraft destroyed some of the planes, but about 200 paratroopers landed. Under Jap uniforms, some wore civilian clothes...
Approval by Moscow. With this plan in his pocket, British-supported Dr. Subasich flew, not to London for the approval of Prime Minister Winston Churchill, but to Moscow for Stalin's O.K. After three days of Kremlin conferences, Stalin approved. Said the official Soviet communiqué: "The Soviet Government welcomes Marshal Tito's and Prime Minister Subasich's efforts to unite all truly democratic national forces . . . and to create a democratic, federative Yugoslavia...
Johnson continually asks advice about his work, never asks it about his private life, which appears to be as conservative as his custom of keeping his car keys safety-pinned inside the breast pocket of his coat. He invariably falls for every girl he plays opposite, and would like to marry and settle down. But childhood with a divorced father and his serious attitude about his career have combined to make him cautious about women. He likes his drinks straight when work will permit but enjoys, more than anything else, watching movies. He was so dissolved by Going...
Publisher Hillman and Editor Lyons bristle at the suggestion that their new 25? slick-paper, pocket-sized magazine is another Coronet, beam at comparison with Reader's Digest. Disinterested readers may find Pageant an agreeable blend...