Word: wave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Everything seemed to be going too smoothly. As soon as the anchor was down the boats of the first assault wave were away and circling in the water. It was the smoothest debarkation I had ever seen. It was too smooth...
...instant" was 6:30 p.m., Sept. 8, 1943. All that day the wave lengths down the Mediterranean from Rome had be rated the Allies, promised a big battle against their invasion armies. Now General Eisenhower and his staff listened for a proclamation of surrender from the Italian Government. The minutes slipped away to 7:30 p.m. Then spoke the Piedmont soldier's voice of Premier Marshal Pietro Badoglio...
...Greece reacted fiercely to the arrival of additional Bulgarian occupation forces. French sources reported that the underground had called a general strike, unleashed a new wave of sabotage. From London came word that Allied staff officers had returned to Cairo from three audacious days of conference with underground leaders. But around the Aegean port of Salonika, key to the Vardar Valley route to Central Europe, the Germans were strongly entrenched...
...What guided the Germans to put Norway under virtual martial law? To make fresh demands for collaboration from Denmark's stubborn government? A mounting wave of sabotage? Or fear of an Allied sweep across the North...
Penicillin, the wonder drug of 1943, last week made headlines up & down the nation. Newspapers reported a wave of frantic appeals for the drug by blood-poisoning sufferers who suddenly learned that 1) penicillin might save their lives, 2) there was not enough to go around...