Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Interwoven in pulverizing succession came heavy raids, on Bremen (1,200 tons) by the Eighth, on Berlin (1,120 tons) and Frankfurt (2,250 tons) by the R.A.F. Before the Frankfurt raid, Canadian squadrons in a whip-smart feint slashed at nearby Mannheim, drawing the Luftwaffe into the skies. By the time the main attack on Frankfurt developed, the Luftwaffe realized its mistake, sent its harassed night fighters racing northward. They arrived too late. By then 800 R.A.F. planes had loosed their 2,250 tons of bombs in 35 minutes, gone home...
Edward John Noble, smart, genial board chairman of the Blue Network, this week announced sale of more than a quarter of Blue's common stock (which he acquired last summer for $8,000,000). Principal purchasers (12 ½% each): TIME INC. and Chester J. LaRoche, onetime board chairman of the potent advertising firm of Young & Rubicam, who becomes a director and chairman of the executive committee of the Blue. Other purchasers: Mark Woods, president, and Edgar Kobak, executive vice president, of the Blue Network...
...subordinate officers had yet to be named in full. The known appointments heart-warmed every Briton: cocky, confident General Sir Bernard L. Montgomery will leave his Eighth Army to serve as chief of "the British group of armies" on the second front; the R.A.F.'s taut, smart Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder will be Eisenhower's top air deputy (as he was in the Mediterranean...
...body armor developed for the Eighth Air Force (TIME, June 14) a new, lightweight protective helmet has been added. Like the flak suit, it is the invention of the Eighth's smart air surgeon, Brigadier General Malcolm Grow, for protection against low-velocity missiles: flak, spent bullets, metal torn loose by enemy gunnery...
...answer (thorns) is good for one base. What relation was Annas to Caiaphas? rates a home run if answered: father-in-law. There are sacrifice flies (Give another name for Simon. Answer: Peter), and bunts (Who betrayed Jesus? Answer: Judas). The rules had to be changed when one smart boy pitcher started throwing sacrifice questions for every third...