Word: sniped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...planes (including commercial planes) a month. It was a week when Adolf Hitler, sending his young men on the errands of total war-his soldiers to invade three peaceful countries without warning, his Fifth Columnists in Belgium and The Netherlands to wreck defenses, sabotage waterworks, jam air-raid alarms, snipe at citizens, seize airports-told them: "The fight beginning today decides the fate of the German nation for the next thousand years!" And it was a week that saw a revolution in U. S. public opinion on World War II, a revolution so swift and sweeping that President Roosevelt...
...British ships' ten 14-inchers. Even if they are not, en masse, the British ships' equal, they will constitute a threat which may force the British to base their battlefleet, not at Belfast as at present, but again at Scapa Flow, where Nazi airplanes and submarines can snipe at them more handily...