Word: swift
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...high loops to dive again farther down the road (see p. 21). And the Sixth Column-the milling, hysterical hordes of refugees, 2,000,000 of them in the Belgian pocket alone-clogged roads and snarled up the already disorganized Allied supply lines. The disrupting Panzer column blows were swift and, when parried, they glanced around the target to strike farther on, even deeper in the Allied rear. Meanwhile, in Belgium the German infantry pressed forward relentlessly, night and day, in efficient "sacrificial cooperation" with the air and armored forces...
...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...
...equipment and artillery-would have to go in surface transports. British mines threaten these, so before the parachutists take off Phase 2 of the German plan would be minesweeping. Several narrow channels through the minefields might be swept in one dark night. The Nazi minesweepers would be guarded by swift, shallow-draft motor torpedo boats. Light units of the British Fleet would face a test of vigilance and daring that night and the next dawn, when the transports and their German naval and air escorts set out on William the Conqueror's path...
Gordon A. Sutherland 2G of Cambridge with an essay on "The Schweitzerian Heresy" and Walter J. Bates 1G of Richmond, Indiana with an essay on "Morbidity and Objectivity in Swift" split a $300 graduate prize...
...this swift and methodical evacuation, The Netherlands could thank a worldwide commercial system that for years has kept as many topflight Dutch businessmen at work across the seas as it has in the home offices behind the dikes. Typical is husky, eagle-nosed Emile Constant Zimmerman, who after 20 years in The Netherlands East Indies, went to Manhattan five years ago as Netherlands Indies Trade Commissioner. With Holland's flight, control of the Dutch business empire went to dozens of Emile Zimmermans, from London to Batavia, from Manhattan to Shanghai. This week, sleepless but hearty, Emile Zimmerman was able...