Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rundstedt announced that he was ill and retired. He returned to service only when the invasion of Poland was in the planning. It was the kind of war the Junkers love because it was to be a swift stab without warning, crushing, yet almost daintily precise...
...belief held by some citizens, that the Roosevelt sons get swift and easy promotions, minus merit or danger, sources in the Army & Navy said privately that nearly all would have been farther along in the services if their father had not deliberately held promotions and even citations back from them...
...Service Committee is extremely disappointed by the apathetic response of the Harvard undergraduates to the bond and stamp drive," Richard N. Swift '44, chairman of the drive, stated. "Although the door-to-door solicitation throughout the College has not been completed, figures available at present show that Harvard is far from making an all-out effort...
...Winthrop D-42 ELI 2320 Stone, R. '44, Kirkland N-42 TRO 2477 Strauss, L. H. '45, Lowell G-23 TRO 7734 Sturgis, N. '46 Adams A-26 KIR 7231 Sullivan, G. J. '43, Adams C-57 TRO 0460 Swan, T. '45, Leverett E-22 KIR 1390 Swift, W. '45, Leverett J-16 KIR 2504 T Tate, J. '46, Dunster K-32 TRO 7681 Taylor, C. C. Jr. '43, Dunster E-34 KIR 8352 Taylor, L. S. 2GB, Kirkland D-22 TRO 3439 Taylor, W. R. '43, Eliot D-31 KIR 7423 Thomas, A. D. '45, Leverett...
...guns was holding on the plains before Stalingrad. But southward the North Caucasian flatlands were suffering the same fate as the Dutch-Belgian lowlands. The Germans had wheeled south of Marshal Timoshenko's main defenses and were overrunning lightly defended territory up to the Caucasian foothills. Their swift advance down the transCaucasian railway left one body of the Red Army, probably a small one, cut off as were the British at Dunkirk. Instead of a Channel, the Black Sea was at the Russians' back. Already the Germans were bombing transports which they said the Red Army was using...