Word: trooped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was evidence that Adolf Hitler was getting ready for just that. For months a common sight in Germany has been the spectacle of picked troops practicing cliff-climbing along river banks. They have been observed plugging away at embarkation and disembarkation maneuvers along the coast. Thousands more have been drilled as parachutists. To carry them across the Channel new concentrations of shipping were known to have been collected from Scandinavia to the Spanish border. Thousands of smaller vessels have been assembled from prefabricated parts, including small, speedy, troop-carrying launches and torpedo boats...
Military experts in Bucharest believed that the recent German troop movements were in preparation for a drive in the spring. There were, however, unconfirmed reports that German troops several days ago had entered Bulgaria and seized some mountain passes...
...cold, dismal day the flag-draped coffin was carried from the Embassy to a caisson, escorted up Massachusetts Avenue by a squadron of cavalry. The city grew quiet as the mounted band played a funeral march. The muffled drums and the dull clop-clop of the cavalry troop thudded in the grey air. Troopers carried the coffin into the grey, unfinished Washington Cathedral. A dull light edged through the rose window, on the guard of honor, the Union Jack, the Ambassadors, the Supreme Court Justices, the generals, the Cabinet officers, the wreaths of chrysanthemums from President Roosevelt, of laurel...
Last week General Richardson, his officers, his men, his horses toiled like mules, trying to wangle more than their allotted two divisions in the new Army. The Eighth Cavalry's Troop A night-marched into the desert, taught raw recruits to find their way by moon and stars across the trailless land. Commanding officers slaved at newfangled exercises, learning to use radio and motorcycle communication, use also the squadron of reconnaissance tanks which will be part of each new cavalry division. On the chill, white expanse of the drill ground or in the dank corrals, recruits learned the manual...
There were four main areas of Chinese push. Up north in Shansi a Chinese force of 20,000 was at work. In central China, near Nanking, Chinese mercenary troops of the Japanese puppet Wang Ching-wei reportedly revolted, blew up two Japanese troop trains and attacked several small villages. A Chinese force also attacked the town of Langsi and "liquidated all of the Japanese defenders." Farther south, only 100 miles from Shanghai, another Chinese Army forced its way across the Chientang River. In the extreme southwest, whence the Japanese carelessly drained troops for the investment of Indo-China, some...