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  • She could be racing only for the Atlantic, with the 'Hipper' cruiser - later identified as the PRINZ EUGEN - as her scout, there to savage and destroy our Atlantic convoys, our sole remaining lifelines to the outer world.

    The Lonely Sea MacLean, Alistair, 1922- 1985

  • The 'Hipper' itself, only a 10,000 ton cruiser, had once fallen upon a convoy and sent seven ships to the bottom in less than an hour.

    The Lonely Sea MacLean, Alistair, 1922- 1985

  • First reported by reconnaissance as moving up the Kattegat on 20 May, she had been photographed in the company of a 'Hipper' class cruiser, by a Spitfire pilot, in Grimstad fjord, just south of Bergen, on the early afternoon of the 21st; at 6.00 p.m. the following day, a Maryland bomber from the Hatston naval air base in the Orkneys, skimming low over the water in appalling flying conditions, flew over Grimstad and Bergen and reported that the BISMARCK was no longer there.

    The Lonely Sea MacLean, Alistair, 1922- 1985

  • Sounds Hipper Than "Open-Government Geeks": On ReadWriteWeb, Mark Drapeau coins a new term to describe the class of creatures committed to seeing our way through to a "more open, transparent, and efficient government": the Goverati.

    Daily Digest: As the CTO Splits, OFA Meets the DNC 2009

  • Sounds Hipper Than "Open-Government Geeks": On ReadWriteWeb, Mark Drapeau coins a new term to describe the class of creatures committed to seeing our way through to a "more open, transparent, and efficient government": the Goverati.

    Daily Digest: As the CTO Splits, OFA Meets the DNC Scola, Nancy 2009

  • I mention this because when I got the library on Monday, between my work and personal email accounts, there were five messages all containing the same link to a New York Times article entitled "A Hipper Crowd of Shushers."

    Nicole Scherer: Librarians Rarely Make the News 2008

  • Hipper Than Thou, Redux by MikeSpindell on Monday, Oct 27, 2008 at 1: 32: 02 PM

    If You Vote Third Party and Elect McCain/Palin, This Is Who You Empower!! DON'T DO IT!! 2008

  • On 24 October, 1918, Admiral Franz von Hipper ordered the German fleet at Kiel, near Wilhelmshaven, to sail out against the British blockade in what would basically have been a suicide mission.

    A History of General Strikes 2008

  • I read a refreshing, but somewhat provocative article on the work and social life of librarians, including some law librarians, in the Sunday New York Times under the title “A Hipper Crowd of Shushers”.

    “A Hipper Crowd of Shushers” — Slaw 2007

  • I read a refreshing, but somewhat provocative article on the work and social life of librarians, including some law librarians, in the Sunday New York Times under the title “A Hipper Crowd of Shushers”.

    “A Hipper Crowd of Shushers” — Slaw 2007

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