Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...different kind of bird is the Stuka. Whereas attack bombers work on long targets over which they whisk at high speed-such as roads, crowded river fords, lines of marching men-dive bombers work on pinpoint objectives. Attack bombers rely on surprise and a paralyzing quick blow to cut down anti-aircraft resistance. Stuka pilots rely on their swift descent to avoid anti-aircraft shells, on quick pullouts and fast getaways to save their skins from machine-gun fire...
...series of quick self-contradictions, the Lampoon double-crossed itself yesterday. E. J. P. Zwoncus, handsome, auburn-haired secretary of the organization, had called off the CRIMSON-Lampoon baseball game for the fourth time, explaining that pressure of their studies would keep 'Pooners in what he cleverly termed, "Harry's Club...
...same time a new issue of the funny mag, containing reprints, appeared yesterday with an editorial hailing a 'Poon 23-2 victory over the journalists. Quizzed on the subject, W. Russell Zwoncus, Jr., President of the Lampoon, asserted, "In a series of quick self-contradictions, the Lampoon double-crossed itself yesterday...
...Quick on her heels tumbled Otto von Habsburg ("Otto the Last"), who, after his anti-Nazi pronouncements...
Presumably the reasoning behind this drastic behavior was that : 1 ) Germany's smashing offensive portended a quick peace, which would abort the aircraft and lesser export booms, 2) a Germanized Europe and axified world would end all extra-hemispheric trade, close European markets to North & South American commodities. Another bearish factor was technical: margin calls. When the selling started, swarms of little fellows, others not so little, were forced to raise a few hundred dollars with which to keep their positions in war babies like North American Aviation (down 8⅞ points by Tuesday's close...