Word: yanke
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Late in the morning the sun tore the haze into milky shreds. With the visibility good, German machine guns, mortars, artillery opened up. The Germans sat behind their log-and-stone defenses and shouted in English: "Yank, give up." Or, "Major Brown says surrender...
...across the Rapido. Others formed human chains. A sergeant tied wire to a pick, and hurled the pick across the river until it stuck behind a rock. Seven men then pulled themselves across. All the equipment was left behind. A huge German Tommy gunner on the bank shouted: "Hey, Yank, don't you want to surrender?" But he did not fire...
Mother Advocate made good her threat to retaliate on those Bow Street boys with a secret weapon, in a deceptive attack last evening on the Poon Building, Yank Levy style. The secret weapon was unmasked and its effects gleam brightly on the portals to the Lampoon...
...Garters: "Public life consists of charging into doorways to yank them...
...reaches a lonely water-hole and tries to trick a thirsty (water-thirsty this time) German battalion into surrender, although the well has run dry. The trick doesn't quite work, and our team has to fight it out. Most of them get killed, but Hairbreadth Humphrey and another Yank capture what is left of 500 Germans. It all sounds like a Hollywood fairy tale, but is staged convincingly...