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Word: ramming (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then the German Army ripped through France. The Germans lined the road on the French side of the Hendaye bridge with tanks and motorized equipment to a depth of a mile and a half. This implied threat and, even more, the influence of his strongman brother-in-law, Ramón Serrano Suñer, led Franco to change his mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Verge of Battle | 8/19/1940 | See Source »

...Board of Education's 39-year-old President, Earl De La Warr, and First Commissioner of Works Herwald Ramsbotham (pronounced Ram's Bottom) also landed in each other's chair. Cabinet critics waited to see what sort of stuff this new & bigger job brought out of young De La Warr, who in World War I was a conscientious objector who showed his nerve by serving on a mine sweeper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Cabinet Shuffle | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

...Cossack approached, playing its searchlights, the Altmark broke free, tried to swing around and ram the Cossack. The latter darted alongside and grappled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Rescue in a Fjord | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

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