Word: rips
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...During his 40 years in Republican politics, eight of them (1929-37) as U.S. Senator from Delaware, Rip Van Winkle Hastings was widely known for his good humor...
...RIP VAN WINKLE DANIEL O. HASTINGS Wilmington...
...outcome of all this, said the Observer, would be to rip up the Reich, throw Germany back into the chaos of little states which Bismarck made a nation, and thus wreck the victors' plans for a united but weakened Germany. In the confusion, the underground Nazis would do their damndest to make life impossible for the occupying troops, keep "a ruthless grip on a cowed population." Concluded the Observer...
Near midnight the first planes reached their objective near Cherbourg. Men snapped their rip cords over static lines, waited, crouching. The command came, and they leaped. White, yellow and red parachutes blossomed in the night. Men by the thousands, weapons by the thousands floated down upon captive France...
...first few days, at least, fighting on the Gustav Line would be a job of battering the enemy, feeling him out, making him commit his reserves to the wrong place. Possibly not even General Alexander could yet tell where he would finally thrust his knife to rip up the spine of Italy...