Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Armored between Saint-Vith and Vielsalm, the 1st Infantry at the north shoulder of the salient below Monschau, and the 4th Infantry at the south shoulder, around Echternach. The two infantry outfits had prevented Rundstedt from widening the salient's base. They were pegs that did not pull...
...ably commanded than it is now, the Germans who had seemed hopelessly bottled in the Falaise trap were able to extricate five divisions of armor almost intact. If Rundstedt was content with the delay and damage already wrought against his foes in the west, he might be able to pull back to the West Wall without serious loss...
Andy McNaughton, named National Defense Minister when Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King needed a national figure to pull him through the great conscription crisis (TIME, Nov. 13), now needed a seat in Parliament. Without it, he could not be a Cabinet member. But last week the prospect that he would win his seat looked neither safe nor sure...
...Late. Within three hours, the ships were unloaded and beginning to pull out. Then the Jap air force struck, with substantial numbers but in small groups. Overhead now were Army Lightnings, and they had fighting to do. Only after nine hours were the Japs finally driven off. But they had done some damage. One flaming Jap plane flew five miles before it crashed into a U.S. destroyer. Another destroyer was torpedoed and sunk; an APD (World War I destroyer converted to serve as a fast transport) also was sunk. The crews were rescued...
...inside plexiglass blisters sight the target through a small square of glass, track it to get speed, range and angle. A computer of complex and secret design sets electronic and mechanical elements in motion. The computer also makes corrections for such errors as might be caused by wind, the pull of gravity, parallax (i.e., the distance between the gunner's sighting position and the turret he is operating), and the speed of both target and firing planes. All-electric, from sight to firing pin, the guns respond to the most delicate adjustment. All a gunner...