Word: rim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Norway and Yugoslavia, on the rim of the New Order, were the best-organized centers of resistance. Twenty thousand Chetniks (Serb revolutionaries) held the hills of their country, blew up strategic railways. In Norway mass arrests continued all week. Each dawn Gestapo trucks routed out sleepy citizens, took them to prisons already full to bursting. Courtrooms and reform schools were commandeered for the overflow...
...beautiful Rabaul occupies a terrible perch on the rim of a great undersea volcano. Out of this harbor rise volcanic islands, one sinister cone called Matupi...
Last week the R.A.F. announced that planes had twice descended over the Corinth Canal to 1,000 feet, had blasted the rim of the rocky bank causing slides that had closed the canal "for months to come...
...song: I'm a ramblin' wreck from Georgia Tech. The others joined in for a moment, then the song faded out. Another tried a ballad about a certain Nelly. That, too, died away. Around the tight, smiling lips of one of the singers a tiny rim of white began to show. Among the seated men ran a quick patter of jokes: about limber legs, and that old feeling below the knees, and how lucky they were to be jumping from 1,000 feet instead of 750, which is pretty low for a safe jump, even with parachutes which...
Siege of Tobruch was a month old when the Axis attackers tried again to take the place by an assault on the southwestern rim of the defense perimeter. Nazi tanks accomplished a small breakthrough. To the desert's awful heat German shock troops added that of flamethrowers, but the answering heat of British artillery exploded the flame-throwing apparatus, stopped the tanks, and squeezed the breakthrough into a small sac. The difference between the futile Italian and the furious British defense of Tobruch was not just a matter of command of the sea. The Italians used fixed artillery, which...