Word: bugging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...failed to hold out behind the broad, free-flowing Dnieper. What chance did he have of making a stand behind the frozen Bug? The Dniester, alone, now some 100 miles behind the front, offered a potential line of defense. But the Dniester's right bank is in Bessarabia, and the echo of Russian gunfire there would echo throughout the Balkans...
...breakdown at Khersoi would throw the Germans back to the Bug River, further imperil the troops still entrenched within the Dnieper bend. It looked like the beginning of a hard winter for Germans...
...anticipate every need, or every quirk of war and weather. Then the improvisations of Yankee ingenuity write new legends of the A.S.C. in the field. Empty gasoline tins, hammered flat and cut to size, have made many a patch for bullet and flak holes. Said an A.S.C. general to bug-eyed factory engineers back in the U.S.: "Did you know that you could straighten a prop blade by wedging it in the bumper of a two-and-a-half-ton truck, then backing the truck until the kink was gone. ... It was done and the airplane flew...
Salt Lake City, which has not re-elected a mayor since 1912, kept tradition intact last week. Out went Mayor David Abbott ("Honest Ab") Jenkins, 60, famed as the nation's fastest driver, who had ridden triumphantly into office in his speed-bug, but had promptly smashed up in quarrels with the city commissioners. In as mayor went polished, polite Earl Glade, 58, vice president of Salt Lake's influential radio station KSL. Explained defeated Mayor Ab Jenkins, whose speed records were amassed in solo flights across the Utah salt flats: "I'm not used to running...
...Wehrmacht was still strong, but it was now a cornered, wounded panther, no longer able to mount an offensive on the eastern front. It could still seek refuge behind the Bug or the Dniester, but neither was an obstacle as tough as the Dnieper, and both were frighteningly close to the borders of German Europe...