Word: tip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...came at a time when the Jap was digging in everywhere, the Allies cautiously moving forward. U.S. warships, ignoring the threat from Jap-held Rabaul, less than 200 miles distant, steamed boldly off the northern tip of Bougainville, and for 45 minutes poured shells into Jap air bases on Buka Island. Reinforced U.S. troops fought grimly in the jungles of Bougainville, wrenching advances of several hundred yards in the Empress Augusta Bay area while engineers rushed construction of airstrips. Australian troops, using Matilda tanks smuggled in secretly at night, increased pressure against the Japanese in the Finschhaven sector...
...started to fire into the engine of an approaching plane. It looked like an American SBD but the location of two blue-burning exhausts meant a Jap torpedo plane. As the plane passed over, Skipper Berlin could almost reach and touch the red ball on the wings. One wing tip knocked off the Who, Me?'s antenna, and another scraped the forward gunner. The plane swept like a piece of paper into the darkening...
...union never gets a chance to announce good news. Example: after long union agitation for pay raises for the Southern California aircraft industry, the War Labor Board decided to grant the increases. Douglas Aircraft somehow got an advance tip, and rushed through the presses a special four-page edition of the company house organ, telling all the workers how the company had won them a raise. The U.A.W.-C.I.O., caught flatfooted, limped to press a day later. Its claim for credit for the raise fell flat...
...Navy and Marines under Admiral William F. Halsey and Lieut. General Alexander Archer Vandegrift was a big step forward (see map). It represented an advance of 200 miles from the nearest big Allied establishment at Munda. It bypassed important Japanese positions at Buin on the southernmost tip of Bougainville, and in the Shortland Islands, 30 miles south of Buin. In those positions there were estimated to be at least 20,000 Japanese. But the real importances of the Bougainville blow were two: 1) it was a necessary preliminary to a necessity-the taking of Rabaul; and 2) it goaded...
...built Douglas transport was perilously close to the German fighter bases on the northern tip of Jutland. Out of a cloud, like a falcon striking at a swan, came a Nazi pursuit ship, the machine-gun muzzles along its black wings blinking like baleful orange-red eyes. The Swedish pilot sobbed a prayer or a curse, threw the wheel over, kicked his rudder pedals, fought to lose altitude and get down near the water without pulling the wings off. The Nazi pilot took his time, turned smoothly to follow the clumsy transport's evasive action, made another pass...