Word: spear
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were flurries of frenzied fighting in this swift parade. Skirmishes, small-size battles sputtered 100 miles behind the advanced forces. The enemy did insane things in his panicky attempts to escape. He tried, with small forces, to spear through long columns. He savagely bombed Verdun after it had been taken, as if in blind spite for two historic defeats. At Mons he fought viciously to break out eastward to the Reich. But other Americans were already two days ahead on his escape route. In the Compiegne forest (where two armistices were signed) Germans hopelessly held out, were passed...
...night before D-Day, few of the paratrooper comrades of TIME Correspondent William Walton tried to sleep. After midnight they turned out, climbed into EUR-475. They were the spear head; some of them would not live to see that day's dawn. Walton, a qualified parachutist attached to the outfit, crawled in with them, was soon over France. He cabled...
...Well, Curlyhead-you're a man now, bearing your bright new shield and spear. I hated to see you go out of my house and close the door behind you; but I think I would not have halted you if I could. I salute you, sir. I cannot pretend that I am not sad; but I am proud, too. So long...
...book"; 2) those serving to keep their rice bowls filled "may be pardoned and even given liberal treatment." Liang said that Wang Ching-wei, No. 1 puppet in Asia, is definitely one of those to be punished when captured. Others were doubtful, recalled that Wang had tao-ko ("reversed spear") five times, betraying causes he once espoused, and had always been forgiven...
...compass-oldest known navigating instrument-has been revolutionized. Last week Bendix Aviation Corp. announced a new automatic compass that makes the old magnetic needle* look as obsolete as a warrior's spear. The new "gyro flux gate" compass, designed especially for aircraft, is already at work guiding United Nations flyers unerringly to their targets...