Word: surly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...afternoon last week trucks loaded with troops of a Waffen SS (armed elite guard) unit drove up to the farm village of Oradour-sur-Glane, in central France. In a few moments the town crier made the rounds, ordered everyone to assemble at the fair grounds...
...Germans had excellent defensive positions, along ridges and on the banks of the Odon River, which lies like an outer bastion to the west of the Orne. But the Allied attack stormed through southeast of Tilly-sur-Seulles, crossed the Odon and established a respectable bridgehead. Then they set methodically to work widening the salient. The first push of the drive was all but complete. The Germans began a series of violent counterattacks...
...Allies will have driven out of the broken, hilly, difficult Norman country and into open, fairly level ground. The next arena of battle might well be the Plain of Caen, an area about ten miles wide and extending some 21 miles south to Falaise and southeast to St. Pierre-sur-Dives...
Into a quadrangle bounded by Balleroy, Tilly-sur-Seulles, Villers-Bocage and Caumont (see map), both the Allied armies and the enemy threw infantry-tank combat teams. The British got into Tilly, got thrown out, tried to get in again. The cost, in men and vehicles, was becoming too steep...
...knows he must take the count before he gets paid off, had surprisingly good luck last week. The House gave it $58,000,000 - $20,000,000 more than last year. This minor miracle was wrought after five members of the powerful and cautious Appropriations Committee made a sur prise visit to OWI's nine-story Overseas Division in Manhattan. The skeptical Congressmen went in to scoff, came out to praise. Glowed Indiana's Louis Ludlow: "I will venture to say that no other activity of the war is run with as little waste." Even New York...