Word: dashing
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...like naval warfare, as Winston Churchill has said. In some ways it is more like the warfare of wooden sailing ships than that of dreadnoughts. Desert war is a visual spectacle that calls for a Turner in the mood of The Burning of the Ships-with just a dash of Dali's eye for desert plains strewn with unreasonable wreckage. Herewith a composite picture of a day on last week's field, as described by various British correspondents on the spot...
...battle pitches a tent of smoke and dust over itself. Into the murk new forms rush. Supply vehicles, naked of protection, dart squarely into the mixup, make contact with tanks which have run out of fuel or ammunition, and, if they are not crumpled, bounce out again. Command cars dash in & out. Ambulances go in undaunted, and their crews run about hunting wounded...
Largest turn-out Monday was in the dash fields, led by Dong Pirnie, recently returned from the gridiron. He holds the college record in the 220, which he set last spring in the IC4A meet. He is followed by Sophomore Eli Berman and Moe Young...
...special sideshow to these "Little Olympics," the Argentina Auto Club has challenged U.S. auto racers to a 14,000-mile dash from Washington to Buenos Aires-via the Pan American Highway to Mexico City and Panama, by boat to Venezuela, thence through Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile and across the Andes to Buenos Aires...
...repealed, it would soon move in with increasing numbers of armed merchant ships. Allied convoys were larger and better escorted. Germany had admitted that Britain's greatest tactical advantage lay in Iceland, where convoys put in to regroup their ships according to speed and value before the last dash to British ports. U-boat wolf packs were still extracting heavy tolls,* but improved depth charges and Allied defensive technique were growing more effective...