Word: sinking
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...troops landed. The N. W. E. F. affair, a pint-sized Gallipoli, will probably lag far behind that proportion of losses. The rating of those who ordered it, and then countermanded it, will be even lower. The Germans saluted its departure with a furious effort to sink a battleship from the air, a loud but hollow claim of having done...
...landed troops at two main points. It took them off again. As the warships and transports steamed away, the German Air Force realized that there went its last chance, for perhaps some time, to carry out a long-standing order from Field Marshall Hermann Goring: at whatever cost, sink a battleship...
...Nazie Sink Three Ships...
...original plan had been to sink match-sticks into the plaster so that the mask could be stripped off in neat sections, but Trevaskis himself finally released the volcano-like heat by crushing the mask with his hands...
...rate, the country should be told the real issues and stakes in the foreign situation. As things stand now, the Republicans have nothing to sink their teeth into, not that they would sink them even if they had anything. The problem is certainly important enough to deserve something more than evasions in the election this fall. The people are anxious to vote on our foreign policy, and indeed they must, if our road through World War II is to be anything better than the dark, rutted side-road...