Word: unexpectedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"The regular nightly diversion is what we call a snooper shoot. The Japs' reconnaissance planes circle like midges, dropping flares to summon torpedo bombers. Our main batteries light out with unexpected bursts. Sometimes we let go with everything and the tracers dance across the sea like ping-pong balls...
A Reason for Awakening. The Moscow Declaration on Austria was as unexpected as an earthquake. At least some of its meaning was as easy to grasp, its causes as hard to define. The Great Powers certainly meant: since Germany was not to keep Austria, her first grab, she need not...
A Living Force. Its double value to U.S. readers is that it simultaneously introduces them to the best British general and to a body of literature they have largely neglected: the spirited, emotional, uneven, intense and practically useful compositions of military men. Its distinction is that it makes common sense...
Beyond higher speeds, longer ranges and better altitude performance, the new fighters also demonstrated an unexpected versatility as light bombers. Meanwhile, designers of models with less power slicked and dressed their products, vastly improved performance, found that their craft, too, had more versatility than they had ever believed possible.
> "It should not be forgotten that the Argentine Republic has been living and is still living in an atmosphere of peace, work and comparative abundance. . . . You . . . will acknowledge that it is not possible, without preliminary preparation, to force the Argentine conscience with a view to leading it coldly and without...