Word: clearness
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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What happened in Gabon last week was not too clear. Vichy said British light cruisers from Bathurst shelled Libreville, Gabon's capital, for hours to prepare for a landing by Free French forces under General René de Larminat, Chief of Staff of the French Army in Syria before France fell. The British denied any shelling, but said they had forced the ocean-going French submarine Poncelet to be scuttled off Gabon. Vichy said Libreville's attackers, who landed on both sides of the town and surrounded it, were French colonial troops from garrisons in Equatorial Africa...
...face of their great disadvantage in these respects, the Royal Navy's patrols -fewer by far than in World War I-must now cope with enemy submarines based, not way up the Channel coast at Zeebrugge or clear around the continent's shoulder in Bremen, Hamburg and Kiel, but just across the Channel in Le Havre, Brest, Lorient, St. Nazaire-perhaps in a dozen other obscure ports where they can slip home at night for more fuel, food and torpedoes after brief but lethal runs to meet convoys spotted if not bombed by the far-roving Luftwaffe...
...forced to quit, too stubborn to quit the Government then. His last months were bitter. The cancer that gnawed at his vitals was a part of his personal feud with Hitler, and like most people who have that disease he clung to life while hating it. When it became clear that his operation had not saved his life for long, he resigned from the Cabinet at last...
...more points with a magnificent field goal. Then, near the end of the third period, the Indians took the ball on their own 29-yard line, gained 15 yards through the line. Frankie Albert, their southpaw passer, flipped a beautiful pitch to little Pete Kmetovic, who scampered into the clear, ran 14 yards, crossed the goal line standing up. A few minutes later, the Indians were back on Washington's 20-yard line. A little hocus-pocus-and they scored another touchdown. Just for good measure, in the last few minutes of play Stanford's little Kmetovic intercepted...
There, during the past few summers, the Passion Play has been performed twice a week in clear, still air free from mosquitoes. The permanent cast of 23 has been swelled, for mob scenes, by local Protestants, Catholics, Jews. Audiences have included thousands of tourists, Wyoming cowboys, Dakota farmers...