Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This was help for Holland, but as the hours wore on, it was not help enough. The French feared they would have to pull out of Breda before they had arrived there in force. On Sunday the Dutch were forced back to their secondary Grebbe Line, after being blasted out of their Ijssel Line by German field pieces fired pointblank into their blockhouses. This week the Germans broke through the Grebbe Line, drove to the sea near Rotterdam, cutting The Netherlands in two. Crown Princess Juliana fled to London with her husband, Prince Bernhard and their children. Princess Irene, aged...
...take many forms. Last week thousands of normal U. S. adults-the kind who vote against war in Gallup Polls-played a new nickel-in-the-slot game. It had several names (Keeney, Sky Fighter, Sky Pilot), but the fun of all was to aim an imitation machine gun, pull a trigger, try to shoot down a darting, fugitive image of an airplane. "No wonder players insert coin after coin-" exulted International Mutoscope Reel Co., Inc., in a broadside extolling its Sky Fighter. "It's that 'trigger-finger' itch that everyone...
...over the sea west of Namsos roared a wide swarm of Germany's deadliest aircraft of all; Junkers Ju.87 dive-bombers ("Stukas"), which had not been given a major workout since they pulverized prostrate Poland. These speedy, relatively small single-motored ships have stout wings to pull them out of long, steep power dives at 430 m.p.h. Their crews are specially trained to stand the pressures of such performance. They carry only one 1,100-lb. or two 500-lb. bombs. These they aim by pointing the plane's nose at the target during its screaming dive. Theory...
...wooded hills from Namsos to Steinkjer at the head of Beitstad Fjord, and from there along the shore road toward Levanger, where the Germans were supposed to be waiting, advance detachments of the N. W. E. F. soon found that fighting "Jerry" in Norway was no taffy-pull...
...genealogical records of the rival Mormon branch he had found his grandfather listed with the women who had been "sealed to him in celestial marriage" in Salt Lake City. "Joseph Smith," said he, "met his death before Salt Lake City was founded. But it was a real thrill to pull grandmas out of a filing cabinet...