Word: approaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unless German scientists have developed a sight allowing accurate bombing out of turns, glides or climbs, maximum danger period of a Nazi level-flight bomber is in his approach to his target. For coming up to his bomb-release line he must fly in a straight line and at a constant altitude for about 60 seconds (more than three miles at 200 m.p.h.), to give his bombardier time to draw a bead. It is there that he is the best target for the antiaircraft guns. On likeliest directions of approach anti-aircraft guns are most heavily established. The batteries...
...candidate had any hopes of winning in spite of the preposterously fixed election, the Government assembled truckloads of pistoleros to keep Almazanistas from getting nosy. One Government spokesman was admirably frank. Said he, apparently in English, to Jack O'Brine of the New York Herald Tribune: "If they approach any of the vote-counting places with arms tomorrow, we will shoo them away with a 't' on the end of the 'shoo...
...theory (John Roebling did not even know the theory when he built his World Wonder). A big factor in modern bridge masterpieces is one Engineer John Roebling never heard about: the professional bridge designer and architect. To him must go substantial credit for creating modern bridges which begin to approach in delicate, aerial appearance what bridges have always stood for in men's imagination...
Meantime the main waves of Germany's attack rose higher between Noyon on the Oise River and Soissons on the Aisne. The Oise valley was Hitler's broadest, easiest approach to Paris. To command it fully his forces had to storm the high bridge called Chemin des Dames-just north of the Oise-Aisne Canal, and then win a foothold on the Aisne's south bank, to converge on Compiegne and the scene of the 1918 Armistice's signing. This they accomplished by the battle's fifth evening, with appalling loss of life...
Over 220 light warships and more than 6.50 other vessels were engaged. They had to approach this difficult coast, often in adverse weather, under an almost ceaseless hail of bombs and increasing concentration of artillery fire...