Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...troop commander told his officers to pass the word to assemble the troop. The limping lieutenant, the tank commander, and the second in command followed him into the darkness. Only the sergeant was left in the room. "It's tough on them," he said. Soon the troop's armored cars, tanks and bantams (cavalry slang for jeeps), were rolling up the dark road, toward the rear. As we turned into the field where we would bivouac, the bearded sergeant said: "Well, it usually ends like this." He meant, not that it usually ended in retirement, but that...
...first time, the German communique made no mention of "V1 fire on London." Liberated Paris, however, got a nasty start when it was announced that robombs had fallen "in the Seine basin" (i.e., somewhere within 40 miles of Paris). The Allied censorship in Paris showed itself as tough as London's; nothing was disclosed except that there had been "casualties and damage...
...eastern end of the line, struck with such force that Kesselring realized this was the main blow. By then it was too late for him to do much about it. The vengeance-seeking Poles battled their way ten miles into Pesaro, at the mouth of the Foglia River. Tough, fanatical Nazis of the ist Parachute Division, who had shown at Cassino that they knew how to fight, showed at Pesaro that they had not forgotten...
Will Lang, veteran of Tunisia, of Salerno, of the Anzio beachhead, went in with the first wave of American infantry (at "a very tough spot," Osborne reported) . . . Reg Ingraham, our naval expert, covered the landings from a warship offshore, then pushed on to Toulon with General Patch's Seventh Army . . . Carl My dans came from Italy to join General de Lattre's fighters in the march on Marseilles (to the best of our knowledge, My dans was the only correspondent with the French forces) . . . and Photographer George Silk flew in from Italy in a British glider which tore...
Twenty-five months ago the War Department announced that a special U.S.Canadian force of "supercommandos" was being formed. By last week, a lifted censorship on its doings revealed that the Force had lived up to its promise of becoming one of the Army's elite-a tough, secret, widely trained outfit that had fought its way through some of the hottest spots of World...