Word: tails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...South contains eight of the last ten (tail-ender: Arkansas; Virginia is 14th from the bottom...
...enemy columns began converging on Mons, striking the tail of our advanced armored unit in that city. The armor was soon cut off and encircled and the commander asked the infantry, which was following for mopping-up, to hurry...
Marine Version. The Marines believe that their forge-ahead tactics cost less in lives than trying to cut off the enemy's tail by inches. (High Marine casualties are due to the fact that Marines are beachhead assault troops, always given the toughest assignments.) But the relief of Ralph Smith, according to the Marine version, had nothing to do with tactics...
...four months the Browns had clung stubbornly to the League lead, despite all predictions of an inevitable slump. On their final Eastern swing, they got by the Yankees and Red Sox all right. Then they hit the skids. In Washington, they made the tactical mistake of taunting the tail-ending Senators. The jeers stung the Senators to life and they won three of the four games. On the way home, the Browns lost four out of six. Back home, they quickly lost another three out of four to the Tigers...
Thanks to the recklessness of sportsmen pilots, the Grumman plane repair shop did a brisk business even in 1930. The partners bought one plane which had dived into a lake until only its tail was visible, for $450. They fixed it up and sold it for $20,000. They also made aluminum trailers, and finally landed their first Navy contract for two amphibian floats...