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...They conserved their power. They sent medium tanks, among which were U.S. crews getting their first lesson in actual combat, to harass, work on the flanks, blunt the Sturm without meeting it in head-on collision. General Grants operated by U.S. crews waylaid one column of Mark Ills and Mark IVs and routed them. (Said Private Barney Rossi, of Brooklyn: "If we'd had our newest tanks we'd have moidered dem bums...
That same day the Nazis had another dead officer on their hands. Early in the evening four men waylaid a Nazi Major in Bordeaux, shot him too. Again the German authorities clamped down. They fined the city 10,000,000 francs, picked 50 more hostages to die for the new killing...
...Hugh Dowding, British Air Chief Marshal, like most visitors emerging from a conference with President Roosevelt, was waylaid by reporters as he left the White House. He had spent an important 50 minutes going over the problems of the R. A. F. with the President and Harry Hopkins. Sir Hugh, lanky, literal-minded, and shocked, said curtly to the reporters: "I don't talk with the President and then come out and tell what was discussed." Few White House visitors do. Nobody expects them to. Most reporters would be shaken to the depths of their propriety if such...
...zero hour of 7 o'clock drew closer the leaderless suicide squad took the initiative and laid a trap for their wayward choice for Swami. Five minutes before the scheduled burning, they waylaid him and made him prisoner...
...boarded the American Legion for the U. S., by personal invitation of President Roosevelt. In ruthless last-minute audacity Germany had tried to postpone the sailing by a dispute over the route, had tried to get the American Legion to take a northern route where it could be waylaid by a submarine, and Martha and her son kidnapped...