Word: tip
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...fire at point-blank range. Batteries of the famed French 753 were trundled into position last week at Rethel, Guise, Landrecies and Le Cateau. French tanks tried to break up the advancing formations of the German tanks. Sometimes encounters became individual, each tank trying for a glancing blow to tip its opponent over. Dust, smoke and debris obscured the milling masses. Supporting airplanes had to refrain from dropping bombs lest they destroy their own machines. When the French artillerymen were set, the French tanks stayed back until French artillerymen had let go with shells. In one blasting...
Picking up Columbus' second voyage (in 1404) at Cape Maisi on the eastern tip of Cuba, the ketch will follow along what the explorer thought was a peninsula on the Asiatic mainland, and trace his expeditions in search of the Emperor of China...
Three years ago, at 55, Tip Reynolds started a newspaper. Printed on a violent, near-red shade of newsprint, the Pink Reporter turned out to be a two-fisted, name-calling, muckraking fortnightly. Tip Reynolds first fell afoul of the law when he went after John E. Kennedy, secretary to ex-Congressman Jerry O'Connell (who is now himself a "liberal" publisher). Charged with criminal libel, punishable in Montana by a $5,000 fine or a year in jail, Editor Reynolds hid out for a while in the hills, finally showed up, printed a retraction, and the charges were...
Ayers and his friends read these sizzling words, saw pink. The Governor himself swore out and signed a warrant charging that this was criminal libel. Complainants: Governor Ayers, Ben Moulton, Senator Woods, Senator Haight. Tip Reynolds was arrested at Three Forks, taken to Bozeman, 30 miles away, locked up in the Gallatin County jail...
...various print shops in Montana, now comes (according to rumor) from a press somewhere in North Dakota. Not a copy was to be found last week on Montana newsstands. But in his cell in Gallatin County jail was a long table covered with pencils and copy paper, and Tip Reynolds at week's end was busily editing his next issue...