Word: trooped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Diamantopoulos, routed to Athens via Siberia, found the tedious ten-day train ride much duller than Odysseus' wanderings. From his window he saw no Sirens, Circes or Cyclopes, only desolate sidings and troop trains drumming west...
General Marshall has already begun to pick & choose among his Regular Army officers. Last week he pointed out that, of 500 permanently commissioned colonels (56 to 64 years old), only 30 now have troop commands. Of the rest, some are doing well enough in staff and office jobs (where, said General Marshall, "we need their brains more than their legs"). Others are simply awaiting...
...airlines were told to ante up again last week; by Aug. i the Government wants to hand 24 big Douglas transports over to the British for troop-toting. With this requisition, U.S. airlines will have given up 120 transports since January 1940, and will be left with only 346 ships (their estimated needs...
...north, the Finnish Front was at first relatively quiet. The tired Finns, though they mobilized, had no stomach for more war. But Germany had for some time been gathering a big troop pool in Norway. This moved up over the top into Finland, maybe directly into Russia...
...Nazi invasion of Russia on June 22 which suddenly and dramatically changed the whole strategy of the war was preceded by all but one of these things: 1. Nazi troop concentrations in Finland...