Word: trooped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hill. The crowd stamped less, cheered more, laughed more easily. It cheered the silk-hatted, beaver-collared President (who had borrowed Joe Davies' fur-lined overcoat). It watched with unexcited approval as General Marshall on his bay horse, King Story, went by with six aides and a cavalry troop, West Point cadets and Annapolis midshipmen. Brand new grey-green Fords rolled by interminably, carrying Governors and dignitaries. There were CCC boys in green uniforms, NYA girls in blue and white dresses, a Negro WPA company, whose straggling ranks and struggling salutes to the President gave watchers their only laugh...
Something more crucial than Bogdan Filoff's stomach ulcers was discussed in those feverish sessions. That something could only have been one thing: whether or not to grant Germany troop transit through Bulgaria or at least use of air bases in Bulgaria, so that the big end of the Rome-Berlin Axis could get the little end out of its Grecian swivet. The Bulgars' decision might make no immediate difference whatsoever: the Germans could undoubtedly penetrate Bulgaria whether the Bulgars wished it or not. But the ramifications of the decision might have heavy bearing on the outcome...
Siege of Tobruch. With this added tip the British went methodically to work on a repeat performance of the Bardia show. While heavy artillery went up, the R. A. F. started off with an attack on Tobruch, roared westward as far as Tripoli, hunting out Italian troop concentrations and airdromes. Off the harbor the British Fleet stood by. Advance land forces pushed on past Tobruch to cut off the Italian retreat, some of them reaching Bómba, 60 miles to the west...
...German High Command was going to fit the parts together made a favorite guessing game last week. One theory in London had the invasion beginning with swarms of parachutists, backed by Stukas and long-range batteries in France, followed by troop-carrying barges...
...asserted that Bulgaria, wedged in between large German and Turkish troop concentrations, was determined to defend its interests and freedom by force of arms if necessary, although the primary objective of Bulgarian policy still is to keep...