Word: attack
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Amiens. If Weygand could cut through the corridor, the Germans who had pushed to the sea would themselves be isolated. But every day, every hour made stronger the coil of power through which this counterattack must pierce, from Amiens to Cambrai and Valenciennes. Before mounting and launching his attack, Generalissimo Weygand had to reconstruct his battle line on a 175-mile front from Montmédy to the Channel, for the troops whose job it had been to defend that front were now coiled up like an anchovy on the wrong side of the German lines...
Some correspondents, recounting raids by machine gun and light bomb on roads crowded with refugees and military transport, charged them to Stuka squadrons because the name had grown pregnant with implications of Nazi frightfulness. These were, in most cases, raids by low-flying attack bombers which swept roads with machine-gun fire and bombs, depended on firepower, speed and whole sale demoralization for their getaway with a minimum of trouble from anti-aircraft fire...
...different kind of bird is the Stuka. Whereas attack bombers work on long targets over which they whisk at high speed-such as roads, crowded river fords, lines of marching men-dive bombers work on pinpoint objectives. Attack bombers rely on surprise and a paralyzing quick blow to cut down anti-aircraft resistance. Stuka pilots rely on their swift descent to avoid anti-aircraft shells, on quick pullouts and fast getaways to save their skins from machine-gun fire...
...over to the belligerent side in a speech to his troops warning them to be ready. Benito Mussolini topped off a Sunday of checking up on military preparations by appearing before several hundred Fascist youths demonstrating for war. Italy's day was at hand. Even the plan of attack was outlined (possibly as a feint) by the Fascist review Conquiste d'Impero: "Since an Italian offensive against France would require tremendous effort, it would not be worthwhile. On the other hand, France could not send great forces against Italy, since she is engaged with Germany." Italy...
...York City's North Brother Island, where she died in November 1938. Last week Health News, bulletin of the New York State Health Department, reported a successor to Typhoid Mary. "Like Mary Mallon, Sally is a cook by trade." At the age of 23 she had an attack of typhoid fever. In the 34 years since her recovery she has spread the disease wherever she handled food. Recently, when Sally was caught and fined, health officers traced eleven cases of typhoid fever to her cooking...