Word: tip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Douglas MacArthur's campaign on Leyte had settled down to a bruising struggle for the Ormoc valley in the island's northwest tip. There some 25,000 Japanese troops were dug in, and they showed not the slightest sign of giving...
Sirs: Being unable to find even a trace of glamorous Gertrude [Dirty Gertie of Bizerte] in Bizerte, we extended our quest across the coast of North Africa from the tip of Cape Bon to Casablanca. Our ceaseless searching was finally rewarded at Sidi-Bel-Abbes, headquarters of the French Foreign Legion (in which Ronald Colman fought so many ferocious battles), when we came upon an alluring Arabian astride a motorcycle, who claimed to be the identical girl about whom the celebrated song was written...
...said B.I.S. "As a customer, Britain bought American exports totaling $521,000,000 in 1938. In prewar years she was consistently the biggest foreign customer of the U.S. . . . Britain is, in fact, so big a customer that economists agree that her purchases or lack of them are enough to tip the balance between prosperity and slump in America...
...ship and the wing span of the target plane (after he recognizes the type), then looks through the sight itself -a circle of orange light with a dot in the center. Using a foot pedal to regulate the circle's size, he frames the target, from wing tip to wing tip, in the circle (see cut). The machine then instantaneously makes all the necessary computations; all the gunner has to do is press the trigger...
After winning the battle of the air over Britain, the Germans blocked British east-coast ports with sunken ships, then made two main landings in the south of England. Simultaneously airborne troops invaded the Midlands. The first landing, in Kent and Sussex on England's southeastern tip. sucked London's defenders down to battle. Then came the second attack, to the west, in the Portland and Weymouth area of Dorset. German armor poured quickly through the inviting flats up to the rolling Salisbury Plain and the Cotswolds, then swerved southeastward to take London from the rear...