How To Use D-day In A Sentence
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In the days following the D-Day landings, Allied troops carved a tenuous foothold on the coast of Normandy.
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Winston Churchill was given a guided tour of the D-Day beaches in a duck.
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His remarks are also particularly insensitive as we approach the 60th anniversary of the D-Day landings when so many soldiers gave their lives to help liberate Europe.
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D-day for my departure was set for 29th June.
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Meantime, the build-up to D-Day went on, and the strain of waiting began to tell.
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He made us see it was as if this soldier were on his way to Washington to help strategise for D-day and instead gets stuck in this Podunk town where he meets this guy, Woody, who thinks he's just gone off the deep end.
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Something else helped the men of D-Day: their rock-hard belief that Providence would have a great hand in the events that would unfold here.
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The D-Day invasion was a concerted exercise by the armed forces of Britain, the US and Canada.
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Mid-day has a unique character which can be summed up in a single word: bindaas.
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Often, in the repose of my mid-day, there reaches my ears a confused tintinnabulum from without.
Walden
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Fair-gui-deen nor Fair-guid-day; but when she buckled to, she had a tongue to deave the miller.
Masterpieces of Mystery, Vol. 1 (of 4) Ghost Stories
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In the days following the D-Day landings, Allied troops carved a tenuous foothold on the coast of Normandy.
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Every year on the anniversary of D-Day, for example, we acknowledge the heroism and sacrifice of those who stormed the beaches of Normandy.
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The parade will conclude around mid-day with a march-past of the Regiments, and a roll-past of the vehicles as they move east along Wellington Street and continue past the National War Memorial and conclude at the Cartier Square Drill Hall for a post-parade reception.
Archive 2008-06-01
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He took around with him on his rambles his vizier, Giafar (a vizier is a composite of a chauffeur, a secretary of state, and a night-and-day bank), and old Uncle Mesrour, his executioner, who toted a snickersnee.
Roads of Destiny
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“Kaylúlah,” mid-day sleep; called siesta from the sixth canonical hour.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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D-Day + 2, 22 Dec 89 - 2d Bde, 7th Inf Div (L), deploys to Rio
Apologies and Clarifications 2
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We have just witnessed the anniversary of the D-Day landings where British troops lost there lives fighting for freedom of speech, and some councillors say you won't listen to other people's opinions.
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LtCols on D-Day - Earl Rudder of the 2nd Rgr Bn and Max Schneider of the 5th Rgr Bn. As Secretary of the Ranger Battalions Assn-World War II (RBA-WWII), I can also attest that no Soloman Harris is listed as having served in either of those two Battalions, or any of the other four Ranger Bns of
Heroes or Villains?
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One recipient was Jan De Vries, who was airdropped into Normandy before dawn on D-Day with the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion.
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She had said the same thing the year before when he'd gone to Europe without her for the fortieth anniversary of D-day.
SIGNIFICANT OTHERS
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An international playboy and fraudster has emerged as a hero of D-Day as stalwart as any man who stormed the Normandy beaches.
Times, Sunday Times
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So, here's the best compliment I can pay Rian Johnson's debut film, Brick: my friend Hagay and I drove to Jerusalem an hour's drive, where the film was playing as part of the Jerusalem film festival, battled the city's unfamiliar streets and mid-day traffic, paid an exorbitant amount of money for a parking place that turned out to be a ten minute walk away from the cinematheque, and missed the film's first few minutes.
Archive 2006-07-01
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The D-Day deception was a resounding success.
Times, Sunday Times
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Whenever there's a government scandal the newspapers have a field-day.
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The weather was cool and overcast, with a slight sprinkle of rain at mid-day.
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In answering this question, Smyth seemed unable to go beyond a comforting but unchallenging look-how-far-we've-come-from-those-benighted-days attitude.
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Eleventhly, God of his grace had pierced her heart, it is read that S. Clare for to dispend amorously the time that God had lent her, in especial she was determined that from the hour of mid-day unto evensong time, she would dispend all that time in thinking and beweeping the passion of Jesu Christ, and say prayers and orisons according thereto, after unto the five wounds of the precious body of Jesu Christ, as smitten and pierced to the heart with the dart of the love divine.
The Golden Legend, vol. 6
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I wrote the story, and then the unavoidable buzz kill of a second-day follow-up story.
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She had said the same thing the year before when he'd gone to Europe without her for the fortieth anniversary of D-day.
SIGNIFICANT OTHERS
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When the unbearable heat drove us at mid-day to seek shelter, he took us to his beehouse in the very heart of the forest.
A Sportsman's Sketches
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There will be military parades, exhibitions, displays of more than 100 wartime vehicles and a D-Day battle scenario on Morecambe beach close to the lifeboat station.
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Those ticktocks, and those trenchant second-day stories.
At Magazines, It's 2.0 Steps Forward, 1.0 Step Back
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This weekend, the world will remember the courage and sacrifice of the Allied troops at the D-Day landings in France.
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Maybe in the last few months before D-day I'll start trying to be good.
A DARKENING STAIN
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UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown renamed the famed Omaha beach "Obama beach" in a slip-up while giving a speech to mark the 65th anniversary of the D-day landings in France Saturday (see photo).
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Unfortunately, there is no official list of those Australians who served on the ships and landing craft during the D-Day landings.
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The D-Day deception was a resounding success.
Times, Sunday Times
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During the mid-day heat the animals take a siesta, so much of the wildlife activity takes place around daybreak and sundown.
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The 60th commemorations of the greatest amphibious invasion in history will be the last big ceremony marking D-Day.
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We enjoyed the morning in a rather more comfortable manner, taking a late breakfast and slopping about the house until mid-day.
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They recalled the languorous siesta of hot mid-day, deep in green undergrowth, the sun striking through in tiny golden shafts and spots; the boating and bathing of the afternoon, the rambles along dusty lanes and through yellow cornfields; and the long, cool evening at last, when so many threads were gathered up, so many friendships rounded, and so many adventures planned for the morrow.
The Wind in the Willows
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The next day was June 6, 1944, D-Day, and these were the men who would invade Normandy. We know where that one goes in the win-loss column.
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But in 1944, Norman returned to action by taking part in D-Day plus one, in which he was wounded in the face and nearly blinded.
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The only argument was whether to have this scrummy little bun piled high with bacon for breakfast or to simply smother it with butter as a tasty mid-day treat.
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By mid-day ambulances, fire engines and police vehicles from all over the county were converging on the city.
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Braving the blustery winds coming in from the Atlantic, three groups teed off just after mid-day, all suitably dressed for the prevailing weather.
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One RAAF pilot flew two sorties on D-Day alongside his Allied counterparts.
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On her way, she stepped into the I Hung Yüan, to look up Pao-yü and have a friendly hobnob with him, with the idea of dispelling her mid-day lassitude; but, contrary to her expectations, the moment she put her foot into the court, she did not so much as catch the caw of a crow.
Hung Lou Meng
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She had said the same thing the year before when he'd gone to Europe without her for the fortieth anniversary of D-day.
SIGNIFICANT OTHERS
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They recalled the languorous siesta of hot mid-day, deep in green undergrowth, the sun striking through in tiny golden shafts and spots; the boating and bathing of the afternoon, the rambles along dusty lanes and through yellow corn-fields; and the long, cool evening at last, when so many threads were gathered up, so many friendships rounded, and so many adventures planned for the morrow.
The Wind in the Willows
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The D-Day invasion was a concerted exercise by the armed forces of Britain, the US and Canada.
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An early start enables a two-dive morning trip to be back on the beach before mid-day.
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Last weekend saw good weather until about mid-day Sunday, when the southerlies set in once more.
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Every time a D-Day anniversary approaches, he is besieged with requests from journalists and researchers seeking interviews.
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The opening 24 minutes of the film is based upon the Normandy landing on D-Day at Omaha Beach in Normandy on June 6, 1944, but that is where the historical side ends and the story takes over.
World War 2 Fictional Films | myFiveBest
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The mid-day event also gave Josef and Ivana the opportunity to say sayonara to many of their friends.
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However, he rose to the challenge and overhauled Samuel by mid-day to secure victory.
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As D-Day approached I became a zombie, all distant stares and unresponsive grunts.
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Saying that, you do stand a better chance of landing a lunker bass in “mid-day” hours but fishing in the morning is almost certain to be action packed …
Is This The New World-Record Largemouth?
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The D-Day invasion was a concerted exercise by the armed forces of Britain, the US and Canada.
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Call me old-fashioned but back in the good-old-days this used to be done with a bit more indirection, subterfuge and cover, no?
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If so, this D-Day anniversary will look as meaningfully towards the future as the past.
Times, Sunday Times
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At the mid-day halting-ground we saw a stone-mother nursing a rock-child, which might still be utilized in lands where "thaumaturgy" is not yet obsolete.
The Land of Midian — Volume 1
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After the group's paradrop of the 82nd Airborne Division June 6, 1944, over St. Mere Eglise, France, in advance of the D-Day seaborne invasion, the 442nd saw action in the skies over Italy, southern France and Holland.
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Now 60 years on, after watching countless documentaries about D-Day and doodlebugs, he is desperate to find out what happened to the infant.
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A glass sculpture created in Warminster will be the centrepiece of a memorial to the D-Day landings in France 60 years ago.
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The battlefields of Normandy are drawing increasing numbers of British visitors as the anniversary of D-Day approaches.
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Wish good-day to berobed, mosque-bound gents.
Times, Sunday Times
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Maybe in the last few months before D-day I'll start trying to be good.
A DARKENING STAIN
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We are not using the term operation or major operations because that often brings to mind in people's psyche the idea of a D-Day and an H-Hour and an attack," McChrystal said.
Spero News
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He went on to command the US land forces at D-Day and the subsequent US advance through France.
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The theme extends to detailed scale model layouts of tanks and ships, and a war games group will re-enact the D-Day Landings in miniature.
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In this first-hand account, we are allowed a field-day to view at will the unmasked faces of the principal politician - and what a pathetic sight they presented!
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During the war, the airfield was used by Dakota aircraft and gliders preparing for the D-Day and Arnhem landings.
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We hired an araba, filled it with straw, and some boxes to sit upon, and set out very early, with two old umbrellas to shield us from the mid-day sun and the night dews.
Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands
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Bourbons, that duty (performed by other generals and termed the disbanding of the army of the Loire) could not atone for the crime of having followed the man of the Hundred-Days to his last battle-field.
Sons of the Soil
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Then there's a film show on Southsea Common, a display of historic military vehicles, a commemorative website and a ceremony at the D-Day stone.
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Nicky Black did a little cold-day dance, hands in pockets, giving a buck-tooth grin.
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The ecological D-Day he posits is compelling and complex.
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On the fifth day, having got in a small stock of provisions, when it was already mid-day and the blockaders were paying little or no attention, and some of them even were taking their siesta, the two ships sailed out of the harbour: the one directing her course towards the Hellespont, whilst her companion made for the open sea.
Hellenica
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You may not know the name Margot Chapman, but when you click this link, surely you'll recognize her soothing voice as it helps deliver the world's pre-eminent ode to mid-day lovin '.
Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
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Allied forces began the liberation of Europe from Nazi tyranny with the D-Day landings in Normandy, France.
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With a laugh, Jason got comfortable in the mid-day traffic as he cruised along in second gear.
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At the strategic location of Pointe du Hoc, American Rangers scaled the cliff walls on D-Day.
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Jack had wanted to team up with bosom pal Lew Williams, but that was not possible because they had been allocated different Landing Craft Tanks on D-Day.
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Charles Turner was serving with the Royal Air Force when his squadron got their flying orders for D-Day.
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Do mid-day supervisors, cooks, cleaners, caretaker and crossing patrol receive copies?
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D-day is considered the dominating event of the war in Europe
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They had the ability to remorselessly pursue their quarry at a relentless pace, regardless of the mid-day sun.
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By mid-day the soft drizzle became a steady downpour, a rain that fell through sunset and then created damp clouds of fog under the street lights.
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We set out early in the morning, and by mid-day reached the ravine of Paypote, where there is a tiny rill of water, with a little vegetation, and even a few algarroba trees, a kind of mimosa.
Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
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It appears the next logical step is the Pizza Hut mid-day stuffed crust pizza, or the Taco Bell afternoon chimichanga plate.
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He is also said to have constructed a armillary sphere, a water clock, and a bronze gnomon, a pointer whose shadow gives the time of mid-day.
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At mid-day they have a mixture of boiled potatoes and the scraps from the house, and barley, pea, or bean meal, whichever may be the cheapest or most come-at-able.
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After this, we may less esteem the feat by which in "Godiva" he describes the clock striking mid-day: --
Famous Reviews
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`Archie, we're putting together the second-day stuff on the Stevens case, along with a sidebar piece on you and Wolfe," Lon Cohen said.
MURDER IN E MINOR
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It was mid-day and I thought the stroll would be better in the evening, the softer light heightening the delicate pink of the bistorts and though there might be more people the traffic noise would be less.
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Everyone was in a doodah, and continued in that condition until NBC finally coughed up the news mid-day Friday.
'Law & Order': Really old -- and canceled
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There were H-Hours and D-Days all over the world, but the one in Normandy is the one that has been associated with that term in the decades since.
Archive 2005-06-01
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A short service to commemorate the 50th anniversary of D-Day was held in Skipton and Settle.
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The days with the proper tide-moonlight formula closest to the target date were 5, 6 and 7 June. (1)The fifth was chosen for D-Day to allow a safety margin in case the attack needed to be postponed.
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Canada's military played a key role in the D-Day landings, code named Operation Overlord, with about 18,000 troops storming ashore at Juno Beach.
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Solomon, clomb up into it and there sat in silence till the mid-day heat had passed away and it was near upon the hour of mid-afternoon prayer, when they descended and looking about them saw a serpent-couple366 issue from the roots of the tree.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Broadcast live on national TV, it begins at around eight in the morning and goes on until near mid-day.
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I had a light lunch, caught the mid-day news and weather - splendid, more rain and wind - and popped off for a nap under the bedcover.
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Meantime, the build-up to D-Day went on, and the strain of waiting began to tell.
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Back on June 6, hours before the main D-Day assault force stormed the beaches, a misplaced parachute drop had deposited his paratroop regiment far from the 5,000-ship Allied armada poised off Normandy's beaches.
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Natalia and Kevin busied themselves preparing the mid-day meal.
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His shooting style was thought of as conservative, yet he boldly installed 152 mini cameras on the D-Day landing craft.
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When the 90th Division went ashore 2 days after D-Day, it was not ready for ferocious combat in the bocage.
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I came home briefly mid-day (which, in my workday is actually early evening) to change my clothes and make Coley a PB&J sandwich before I went back to work & I did sneak out for a bit to watch the tail end of an old Ted Koppel interview with the seemingly coked-up head of the Church of Scientology and a documentary about the Montana Militia vs. the "green nazis.
Dru Blood - I believe in the inherent goodness of all beings: February 2006 Archives
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At the mid-day collation of sandwiches and sherry in the sitting room, Protheroe said ‘I take the racer to Maidstone.’
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On Friday he joins up with hundreds of D-Day veterans for a special tribute in France.
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Warminster Library is to host a special party for D-Day veterans to spread their tales of bravery.
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His academic career was interrupted by World War II; he served as an ensign in the U.S. Naval Reserve and was in the third wave to land on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day.
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As for weather between these two places; when the weather is good in the winter in San Cristóbal it is splendid - crystal clear air at 7,000 feet and beautiful blue skies after morning valley fogs with mid-day temperatures normally in the 70s or low 80s +in the sun.
Pedestrian Friendly?
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i love airplaine shooting games/space ship shooting games. and i have a nintendo ds. does anyone know what games there are in this niche. thanks for your help call of duty 4 and brothers in arms: d-day
Games Space | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
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She was nae great speaker; folk usually let her gang her ain gait, an 'she let them gang theirs, wi' neither fair guid-e'en nor fair guid-day; but when she buckled to, she had a tongue to deave the miller.
Stories by English Authors: Scotland (Selected by Scribners)
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The National D-Day Memorial in Bedford, Va., will have several events with guest speakers and a commemoration ceremony.
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Whenever there's a government scandal the newspapers have a field-day.
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LtCols on D-Day - Earl Rudder of the 2nd Rgr Bn and Max Schneider of the 5th Rgr Bn. As Secretary of the Ranger Battalions Assn-World War II (RBA-WWII), I can also attest that no Soloman Harris is listed as having served in either of those two Battalions, or any of the other four Ranger Bns of
Heroes or Villains?
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The ecological D-Day he posits is compelling and complex.
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Even if a cheque cleared on a Wednesday, technically a bank could bounce that cheque up to mid-day on Thursday.
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Nevertheless, after relanding, the sensation of the D-Day disconnection during the real jump was recreated as the temporary troopers climbed out the aft, left hatch, their
Arsenal News Blog
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When D-day arrived they have made enough Penicillin to treat all the wounded ally forces.
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Many kinds of vehicles were waterproofed for D-Day, including tanks and jeeps.
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Constructed of various concrete caissons and pontoons, the Mulberrys were the innovation that made the Normandy campaign following the D-Day landings possible.
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Now known to history as D-Day, Operation Overlord, the greatest seaborne invasion in history, began the long-awaited invasion of Europe.
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The wartime tricorn hat and WRNS badge on display are those she wore on D-Day itself as she went on duty at Eisenhower's HQ at Southwick House.
