Word: falling
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Retreat In Belgium. The quick fall of Eben Emael fortress, great new strongpoint of the Liege corner, was a heavy blow, whether brought about by a "secret weapon" (see p. 28) or sheer power. Three bridges across the Albert Canal went with it, one when an officer about to order the bridge's destruction was killed by a bomb and his successor hesitated to act. Another Belgian officer darted back over another captured bridge and blew himself up with it. Through these holes the Germans poured before the mass of the Allied force could reach the prepared outer defenses...
...Germans had in use and reserve. Surrounding Liege, the Germans pressed relentlessly ahead to threaten Brussels and Antwerp. In the Coblenz area they reserved five mechanized divisions for a drive on Arlon and Longwy alone. The Belgians and the Allies under General Gamelin began to fall back on their Namur-Antwerp positions...
...whiff, they said, makes soldiers stagger and fall, their muscular coordination anesthetized as by "twilight sleep." Fuhrer Hitler last weekend personally handed the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross to Lieut. Witzig and seven other flying officers for their "incomparable daring" in taking Eben Emael and certain bridges over the Albert Canal. He promoted Lieut. Witzig to captain. To the inventors of the new Angriffsmittel went greater tribute: real alarm among the Allies lest this unknown new weapon prove a key to unlock the Maginot Line...
...Alcazar fall in the Spanish Civil War. He wrote how the Finnish cold froze cigaret butts between puffs...
...Gropius, professor of Architecture and leader of the Bauhaus School of Design; Arthur Darby Nock, Frothingham Professor of the History of Religion; Dean Landis; William L. Langer, Coolidge Professor of History; and George W. Pierce, Rumford Professor Physics and director of the Cruft Memorial Laboratory, who is retiring next fall...