Word: trooped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...even a Constitution. Monday, May 14, 1787, was fair and clear in Philadelphia as the men from the colonial seats of government began to assemble. Only the day before General George Washington, coming with reluctance from his seat in Virginia, had arrived; he had been met by a troop of horse and the entire populace, while muskets banged and bells chimed in his honor...
...tons), faster (maximum 41 knots), more maneuverable and better-gunned destroyers began to come off the ways.* The Navy gradually retired its oldsters, but kept them greased. By last week, 123 were in service. Some have been converted into mine layers, some are being made into troop carriers and anti-aircraft batteries. Most were assigned to safe and stodgy neutrality patrol. The Navy last week had 78 modern destroyers, 57 more under construction and 74 planned. Even before the building program was stepped up the Navy expected to have 61 additional destroyers in service by 1943. That rate of increase...
...upon his military machine. Perhaps the world's eyes have been too closely focused on the narrow Channel. Perhaps he would spring from Norway. Last week Swedish newshawks reported a German transport torpedoed in the Kattegat, bound for Norway with 4,000 men aboard. Swedes have also reported troop and transport concentrations at Bergen and Stavanger. Perhaps Hitler would use Eire, which has declared it would resist British "protection" with force. Perhaps he would come...
Later in the week a convoyed line of big troop transports reached Egypt after an uneventful trip from Britain all the way around Africa, up the Red Sea and through the Suez Canal. The exact number of troops was not revealed, but unofficial dispatches spoke of "several thousand"-infantrymen, Australian aviators, nurses from Scotland and England, R. A. F. and naval reinforcements. Meantime Britain awaited the real Italian campaigns: against Egypt from Libya, against the Sudan from Ethiopia...
...troop of Rumanian soldiers held Jimbola, and Army discipline was decisive. The soldiers stopped the taxi gunmen and the pursuing locomotive. Scared Carol got over the border into Yugoslavia with some 30 of his palace clique. He took with him in freight cars attached to the royal train three handsome motor cars and 30 truckloads of valuables...