Word: trapped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Partisans, Five. At the farm of Antonio ("Tony, they call me in the United States") the trap had been laid. Two German paratroopers had stolen Tony's chickens for Christmas. They would be back for Tony's pig for New Year's. Tony, his son and their friends waited. From ambush they fired an Italian rifle and an Italian machine gun. They tossed the bodies into a quickly dug grave and scrambled up a steep path to Gessapolina. There they had the protection of British patrols...
There were no other doctors and no medicaments. For nine days, while the Partisans slipped through the mountains and out of the trap, Olga staggered after them. Vladimir brought her berries to eat and grass and occasionally raw horse meat...
Seydlitz had a story to tell: On Nov. 19, 1942 the Red trap was sprung on the German Sixth Army at Stalingrad. Its ambitious commander, Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus, at once asked Hitler's permission to fall back from the untenable positions on the windswept steppe. On Nov. 20, Hitler called an emergency conference at his headquarters, 1 ,400 miles away...
...crashed right through the front door, nearly killed themselves and their mother. who was coming up the steps. She made them stay indoors all day. The family had a gymnasium, fitted up for the boys over the stable, hired an instructor to teach them gymnastics. The little Hewitts cut trap doors through the floor of their gymnasium to make a secret hideout. When the police called, as they often did, Mrs. Hewitt used to direct them to the gymnasium, knowing that the cops would never find the boys. They never...
Strike. In Schenectady, N.Y., Arthur L. Stockmore investigated a third-floor trap door, found 84 quarts of pre-Prohibition whiskey in a secret room...