Word: across
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...French, after using planes to strafe their assailants for the first time in this war, marched down again. The Germans did some fairly heavy shelling farther east in the Wissembourg sector, to which the French replied in kind. On the Rhine frontier, the French tried some heavy machine-gunning across the river at Kehl. The Germans replied but no one tried to cross the river...
...tude. Guided by "the views and wishes" held by General van Overstraeten, they decided the following: "1) If the German forces attacked Holland but did not come south of Nijmegen and the Rhine, Belgium would not move; 2) if the German advance were directed south of Nijmegen and especially across Dutch Brabant, Belgium would order immediate general mobilization and declare that her own security was threatened." The German Ambassador in Brussels telephoned Berlin the gist of Belgium's decision. "The news from Brussels was received when Generals Keitel, Reichenau and Blaskowitz were assembled in Berlin for a final conference...
This week the 18 German divisions that did not march over the eastern frontier of The Netherlands, and the Allied forces and British Fleet which did not pour across her southern and sea frontiers to meet them, were nevertheless still at their jump-off positions. All of which put The Netherlands in World War II's very toughest spot and made Her Majesty Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria, Princess of Orange-Nassau and Queen of The Netherlands, the world's most worried Chief of State...
Japan's troops, who were able as usual to make an unresisted landing, pushed inland rapidly, advancing 30 miles in three days. The Chinese said they were dropping back to draw their enemy across the coastal plain into hills where they could be disastrously stopped. But this tactic would not prevent the Japanese from establishing air bases on the plain, from which they could easily and systematically bomb the two supply routes...
...Capone, freed after seven years and six months in California's Alcatraz and Terminal Island Prisons, was whisked across the continent by Federal Agents to Baltimore's Union Memorial Hospital in order to be given malaria. Object: a fever cure of his paresis under the care of Dr. Joseph E. Moore, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine instructor in syphilology...