Word: sniped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nightfall the Bürgermeister had quietly assembled 25 middle-aged police recruits who will be allowed to patrol the streets wearing arm bands. Their first task: rounding up armed Nazi youths who snipe at Allied soldiers...
...Guileless Americans. In jungle areas they place fallen trees in front of their positions and snipe at our men, who are obliged to clamber over these trees, often stumbling in the process. For this purpose, U.S. snipers often take up positions in standing trees near...
...canned food ran out. Bud and Connie lived off fish, wild geese, snipe and ptarmigan-when they could get them. They spent whole days in icy water holes, waiting for the wary game. Once Bud shot a moose, but Connie never achieved his ambition for her. Friendly natives gave them an occasional bite of "Eskimo ice cream" (blueberries, snow, and seal oil). Sometimes they had so little to eat that they lost all desire for food and meandered down the river "dizzier than sick cats," sipping hot tea in the driving rain...
...Effort. In Snipe, Tex., the State Prison Farm manager told his charges that soldiers needed knives, set up a box for donations, with "no questions asked." The take: 40 knives...
...shooters and small arms used by its critics to snipe at the War Administration were put aside this past Lincoln's Birthday weekend. This opposition, grasping the opportunity presented by the all-quietness of the military fronts and the American people's susceptibility to pseudo-patriotic harangue on a national holiday, let fly with its heavy artillery, and the ammunition was spotted with verbal dum-dum bullets...