What is "hannover"

Usage examples of "hannover".

I expected someone imposing, as if all his wealth and power would be manifest in a physical form sculpted from bronze, but Hannover turned out to be amazingly ordinary: short and paunchy with a receding hairline, skin the color of a mushroom, wispy fine hair, eyes glazed into a dull stare.

Abstract thought, I told Hannover, decision-making powers and symbolic communication and, for Speaker at least, even the gift of speech.

Had there been something in the engineering I had missed, or screwed up that led them to turn on Hannover the way overbred St.

To reach the Hannover estate, I drove a series of two lane roads, through small towns consisting of old frame houses, closed gas stations, rusting cars in fields like the fossils of armored prehistoric beasts.

Rutger Hannover was major news and an army of news trucks almost blocked the main entrance.

Captain Davis, whom I found barking orders at a squad of state police, Hannover security men and local volunteers.

The Hannover summer house was a three-story Victorian mansion large enough to be a hotel.

The one time I had met Rutger Hannover, he had been polite, brisk and business-like.

It seems as if they witnessed Hannover molesting some of his relatives.

The three other combat wings were all to fly to Hannover, to attack the important Continental Gummiwerke, believed to be the largest motor-tyre factory in Germany.

It may be thought that the planes which returned were suffering from mechanical stress after two previous days of operations, but the nine other groups flying to Hannover, which were also on their third consecutive day of flying, suffered only half the proportion of abortive sorties as the Hamburg-bound groups.

But the German fighter controllers covering the Heligoland Bight area did not commit their main force of fighters too early and, when the combat wings of B-17s bound for both Hamburg and Hannover later approached the German coast, they were met by strong fighter opposition.

Those fighters in touch with the Hannover B-17s immediately started a series of fierce attacks, usually from the front and pressed home with great determination.

But this flight had been timed to coincide with that of the three combat wings which should have bombed Hannover and these further American formations were also routed back through the same area.

Two combat wings, of six groups, had pressed on to reach and bomb the motor-tyre factories in Hannover and their accurate bombing had caused severe damage and dense fires.