Word: third
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Phelan also led the squad at the plate blasting out a home run in the fourth inning with two men on the sacks to score three runs. Clusters of two runs were tallied by the Samborskimen in the third, seventh, and ninth innings...
...rusted tight by rain, barnacles were four inches deep on her rusty hull. In the captain's quarters lounged "Captain" Chan Tze-ming; in the engine room "Chief Engineer" Wang Chi-fu reigned over nosy harbor rats and cold, dry engines. It was the Kwang Yuan's third year at anchor...
Doing most of their bombing at night and having fewer planes in air, the Allied losses of ships were probably fewer than those of the Germans. They officially claimed that their losses were only a quarter to a third of the Germans'. The German claims reversed the relative losses. Opposing claims: Allies, 1,000; Germans...
...fighting had gone on. When it stopped, the Dutch, who had given up the northeast half of their country with little resistance and retired in good order from their first line of defense along the Ijssel River, still held their Grebbe Line (second defense) and Holland Water Lines (third). They had mopped up most of the parachutists in and around Amsterdam. They still had The Hague, Leiden, Utrecht, Den Helder. They still held, with British and French, the island province of Zeeland in the rivers' mouths. But further resistance did indeed seem hopeless. Whole towns were bombed...
...Dutch and Belgian ships not caught at home by the Germans were available for the Allies' merchant fleet. These additions, together with tonnage contributed gladly by Norway, less gladly by the fretful, fearful Danes, added about one-third to the Allies' merchant marine and put them so far ahead of present requirements that they could last week reduce charter rates...