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Word: specs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dawn: Dark enough to strike without giving too much away, light enough to set the victim up in silhouette. It was to be a simple operation. All the Admiral Graf Spec had to do was warn the plodding French freighter not to send out radio alarms, take off her jittery crew, shell her or set some TNT below, and give her a one-way ticket to Davy Jones. Then get away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Pocket into Pocket | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...went the four, zigzagging, varying speed, roaring steel at each other. The cruisers kept dashing in from all angles like hounds baiting a boar. In Spec's guts, the 62 British seamen-the youngest was 15, the oldest 72, every sort from captain to cabin boy-hollered their happy heads off every time they felt the Spec take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Pocket into Pocket | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...Spec's sister Admiral Scheer and German Submarines were also rumored on their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Pocket into Pocket | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...await orders, NBC-RCA's representative there, Bill Clark, signed up his friend Jimmy Bowen to keep watch on her. Jimmy, who had once broadcast a Montevideo opera opening for NBC, found himself with a microphone, headphones, and the job of periodically reporting the comings & goings of the Spec's officers, the feverish activities of her men, the vague rumors that drifted down to the docks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Jimmy Tells the World | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...other two were supposedly in German waters last week: the Deutschland had been bombed by Loyalist Spanish airmen off Iviza, Balearic Islands, the Admiral Graf Spec by the British in their raid on the Wilhelmshaven base...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Old Game | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

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