Word: trooped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attempts to smoke him out by pleading the necessity of secrecy, Prime Minister Chamberlain finally delivered a sketchy "interim" report to a sullen, worried House of Commons. Stripping the speech of reassuring forensic shocks, stupefied M. P.s learned: 1) that although aware "for many months" of German transport and troop accumulations at Baltic ports, the Allies were unprepared for a northern Nazi thrust, the troops assembled for aiding Finland having been dispersed; 2) that the mining of the Norwegian waters on April 8 coincided purely by "curious chance" with the Nazi coup; 3) that although the Nazis invaded Denmark...
...River Valley) and from Lillehammer up the Gudbrandsdal (Lågen River Valley), the Germans launched two mechanized columns which again showed the world, as in Poland, how a modern juggernaut can open the road to war. These spearheads, to be followed by heavier forces from the growing Nazi troop-pool in the Oslo district, drove to reach their comrades at Trondheim before the floundering Allies should surround that town and close the roads to reinforcements. One struck north to the copper town of Röros at a speed which excited correspondents called "lightning"-actually about 50 miles...
Overhead the northern war also accelerated. For six hours Nazis rained death on Namsos, which went up in flames. The stations at Åndalsnes and Dombäs (between Åndalsnes and Oslo) were fired, too. British air fleets retaliated with more raids on Stavanger, Kristiansand, and a new troop-ferry air terminal at Aalborg in Denmark. Apparently the northern war's turning point still hinged on dominance...
...pioneer tells of striking into the Indian-haunted plains west of Missouri immediately after a troop of soldiers has been massacred. Led by a 23-year-old lieutenant who understands Indian "deviousness," the party forestalls a night attack by winking bull's-eye lanterns around their camp, concludes a treaty with the Indians by promising to conjure no more stars down from heaven...
...English broadcaster Lord Haw-Haw, tentatively identified as William Joyce, Anglo-American-Irish fascist (TIME, March 11). CBS listeners picked up a typical Haw -Haw news bulletin following the Scandinavian invasion (see p. 19): "The New York paper, Evening Star,* writes: that it is learned that British troop ships with several divisions aboard have left England and were at present on the high seas. These ships were said to be intending to land troops, either in Norway or in Holland. The Evening Star is of the opinion that the landing of British troops in Holland is more probable, as Britain...