Word: trooped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Like troop movements, the shuttling of scientists from campus to campus, plant to plant, is kept quiet-almost absurdly so: Harvard faculty wives are no longer given lists of visiting scientists who can be invited to tea parties. Letter slots were cut in certain important doors at Bell Telephone's Laboratories so that nobody can peer inside. Old colleagues no longer know what their pals are working at. And after hours-which are late and long-they make heroic efforts not to talk shop...
...Prince became one of the Gestapo's chief pre-war agents in France, and his polished manners persuaded many uncouth Nazis not to scratch their heads with their forks. One of his first acts last week was a decree that hereafter French hostages would be carried on German troop trains, to discourage sabotage...
...Frenchmen kept rebelling. Besides slowdown sabotage, it was estimated last fortnight that since the fall of France 74 steel foundries had been violently sabotaged, 18,000 trucks loaded with war materials destroyed, 30 ammunition dumps blown up and 184 trains derailed. Last week another German troop train was derailed, killing 44. Two grenades wrapped in newspapers were hurled into the Nazis' Paris headquarters. In a Rennes theater this week, when Jacques Doriot, rabid collaborationist and good Laval friend, got up to address a meeting, someone in the balcony threw a bomb which exploded harmlessly in the orchestra...
...assault. A Navy communiqué from Washington reported a great victory by U.S. and Australian naval airmen (who probably flew PBY patrol bombers). Two heavy cruisers were sunk, and the attacking airmen thought, with varying degrees of certainty, that they had also sunk a light cruiser, three destroyers, five troop-jammed transports, a gunboat and a minesweeper. They damaged a fourth cruiser, a fourth destroyer, six transports, an aircraft tender and a gunboat.* In a later attack on New Britain, U.S. Army bombers thought that they sank another Jap cruiser, damaged still another. U.S. and Australian airmen destroyed...
...Shall Return." From the take-off point to northern Australia was an eleven-hour flight for the Fortresses. Below them, or very near their course as air space is measured, lay the conquered Indies, the Japanese airdromes and troop centers on Timor, the New Guinea airfields and harbors where the Japs were massing and Allied bombs were dropping. It was a course straight across Japan's new Pacific barriers, and it was a course for Douglas MacArthur to remember on the southward flight. He expected to retrace it some...