Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cautious reports from Australia and New Zealand intimated that they and cooperating forces were holding grimly to their gains and having "some success" despite stiff enemy resistance, but otherwise there was little indication of how this first Allied offensive in the Pacific was progressing...
...risking the aircraft carriers now available to them in the Atlantic, Britain and the U.S. might cover initial landings, the seizure of a few airdromes, the quick delivery of enough land-based fighters to hold the air over northern Norway while troops tried to secure a real hold. If successful, the Allies could then break Germany's air grip on the convoy route to Murmansk and Archangel, perhaps compel a major German diversion from Russia's northern fronts. If they failed-and the odds against final success would be great -they might still upset the Nazis enough...
...much as 4-to-1, the Russians had laid ambushes. Along a two-mile front they had sunk half a dozen light tanks into the earth as pillboxes. Three or four other tanks were left free to attempt to lure German tanks into the line of fire, with some success. But still the Germans pushed...
...secret of the pickup's success is a reel which relieves the plane and glider of sudden starting shock, and smoothly eases the load into the air. Even the towrope is of stretchy nylon. One plane can accumulate a glider train by successive passes at the uprights. Each glider has its separate rope, snubbed individually at varying lengths, to the tow plane's tail...
Peddie and Maloon, who are both in their early twenties, are conceded to have done an admirable job. Their success Saturday was somewhat of an upset, since their opponents scored a hot 65 in the qualifying round. Neither team led until the seventteenth hole, when Peddie and Maloon clinched the round, and finished off in the eighteenth...