Word: steams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...General Eisenhower's armies ate deeper & deeper into the Reich, approaching Berlin and Dresden, and the Russian steam roller began clanking westward from the Oder River, the hottest question in the Allied world was: when will V-E day come? Behind that was another, subtler question: at what stage of German disintegration would a victory proclamation be justified? The second question was answered this week by Eisenhower in characteristically straightforward and sensible fashion: "There will be no V-E day until Germany is completely occupied, including all pockets of resistance, and the German Army is completely destroyed...
...Japanese Navy Ministry must have known that it could not repeat the air blow in sufficient strength. But that night a small Japanese task force built around the battleship Yamato-a light cruiser, a smaller light cruiser and nine destroyers-was permitted to steam out of the Inland Sea, glide through the dark along Kyushu's coasts and turn into the East China Sea on its mission toward almost certain destruction...
...bullets creep up toward the locomotive, and my plane is usually about 25 feet above the cars before I get enough shots into the boiler. Some of the locos blow up a few feet and settle back on the tracks as if heaving a big sigh. Others just puke steam-I only claim them as damaged...
...advance of the Allied offensive, the 365th got orders to work out on railroads along the Rhine. The Mad Polack's record in three days of mediocre strafing weather: 13 locos blown up; four steam-spewers, one enemy tree branch captured (and brought home in his engine cowling...
...grand jury. The Army complained about Peoria's prostitutes and the FBI made a white-slave raid. All this was bad enough. But when Peoria discovered that gamblers, barmen and madams were showing interest in the reform candidate, it decided that Ed Woodruff had lost his steam. Last week Peoria voted, Laundryman Triebel won. Woodruff ran a bad fourth...