Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...waves of the ocean would be the waves of German bombers-heavy, light and dive-which would precede the sea ferries and air-troop transports. Professor Banse long ago recommended Norfolk-Suffolk as a base for the G. E. F. because "the Great Ouse, which flows into the Wash, and a number of streams flowing into the Blackwater estuary . . . make the peninsula into a regular island, which provides an invading army with safe and roomy quarters from which it can threaten London, which is quite close and without natural defenses on that side-and also the industrial Midlands...
Neutral correspondents, going from Berlin to see what Holland looked like after the Blitzkrieg, doubted Nazi claims that their war had taken but 300 Dutch civilian lives. In Rotterdam alone, whose marshy base allowed few underground shelters, uncounted thousands were crushed under heaps of bricks and stones. A deadly air bombing, ordered by the Germans when a Dutch commander withheld his surrender a few minutes beyond the ultimatum hour, smashed a square mile of commercial Rotterdam-according to the story in seven-and-a-half minutes. The Stadhuis (Town Hall), the new Beurs (Stock Exchange), the Post Office, the biggest...
Flushing, the best coastal harbor, and Den Helder, Holland's chief naval base, were heavily bombed, and even the ancient harbor of Stavoren on the Zuider Zee was shelled. Elsewhere, except in key defense towns like Breda, Tilburg and Maastricht, physical damage had not been great. For the rest, most of the great cities surrendered too quickly to be bombed...
Once, in Savannah, when a base hit and an error put two men on base, he got a ribbing. He countered by grandiosely calling in his outfielders, then striking out the next three...
...football team, engaging in his first year of varsity baseball with the Quakers, has played only ten of his team's twelve games, a toe injury keeping him out of the other two, and has hit safely at least once in nine of those games. His only extra-base hit was a homer, in the season's opener with Cornell...