Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Line, built by the French atop high, naturally defensible escarpments. But the south appeared to be a likelier route for an Allied plunge into the coastal flatlands. The weather was wet, but the footing was better over sandy soil. And in the Allies' southern sector were the battle-smart veterans of the seasoned Eighth Army. With a strong show of artillery and tanks, Rommel tried to delay them. They edged...
...Army's accident rate had gone down, not up. It was .11% lower per 1,000 hours flown in the first eight months of 1942 than it had been in the ten years from 1930 to 1940, when the Air Corps prided itself on being a smart, seasoned outfit. The fatality rate had gone up, but only by a whisker...
Ford, a slinky five-foot-niner with a head as smart as his strokes are slick, is the fair-haired boy of Coach Bob Kiphuth's Yale team. Born in Balboa, Canal Zone, he was given swimming lessons at the age of three because his parents, transplanted Illinoisans, wanted him to be more amphibious than they. By the time he was 15 he was picked for a team to represent the Canal Zone in an international swimming meet in South America. Last year, as a student at Mercersburg Academy, he caused a sensation by equaling Weissmuller's record...
With characteristic drama, Tanker Patton took the surrender of Casablanca's commander with two pearl-handled automatics on his hips, a tommy-gun in the crook of his arm. But another side of Georgie Patton, the smart leadership that makes him a soldier's soldier, was clearly shown in his pre-invasion order of the day, released last week by the War Department...
with at least a year's weekly experience on news and ads needed badly to assist publisher of good weekly. Prefer gal who is a perfect 36, beautiful, smart, willing to work for $5 a week, interested in weekly papers. Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, white or colored. Because of the war we might waive some or all preferences. Office is cold in winter, hot as hell in summer, the toughest weekly joint in the state to work in because we're ornery. We also expect perfection in other folks. We serve beer when the 40-year...