Word: southwesterly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Biggest air attack so far came last week. Late one rainy afternoon, a British naval squadron ran across two or three German vessels "southwest of Norway." They gave pursuit, and chased the German ships all night. Next day a force of German bombers appeared and attacked, echelon after echelon. Germans later claimed ten direct hits, six with heavy bombs, four with medium. The British reported that one shot came close enough to splatter splinters on a cruiser. Two German planes, either crippled or lost, made forced landings in Danish territory, one went down off the Danish coast...
...most paris of the Southwest, Meyer said today in an article in The Saturday Evening Post, the pass is a normal part of the offense "set a dangerous maneuver to be used sparingly and in faint hope." He backs this statement up with the figures that in 1938 the Frogs passed 229 times and in 11 games lost the ball only seven times by interception, but 17 times by fumbles...
Hinge of the "door" was the Fifth Army commanded by the German Crown Prince Starting from the Trier-Saarbrtücken area (where fighting is most active this time), his course was through Luxembourg and Longwy in a short arc southwest to Verdun. The Fourth Army, under Duke Albrecht, was to swing in a wider arc through Luxembourg into the dense Ardennes forest, cross the Meuse and the Aisne northwest of the Crown Prince's Army, and sweep south toward Châlons. Other concentric arcs were mapped for the Third and Second Armies under Generals Hausen...
...cruisers encountered Admiral Hipper's cruisers when both sent scouts to investigate a small merchantman about 2 p.m. Beatty, with the western light at his back, took a shellacking from the German guns. When Admiral Jellicoe got there with the Grand Fleet, Scheer turned directly about and fled southwest, while the British got between him and his bases. In trying to head toward home under cover of mist and smoke screens, he ran into the British rear-ships and fled westward again...
...ANGELES--John Bromwich, the ambidextrous Australian tennis star, jolted Bobby Riggs, Chicago, National Champion, from the Pacific Southwest tennis tournament today in a hard-fought 6-4, 6-4, 0-6, 6-3 match...