Word: 106th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...meanest medic had not been caught in an abortion mill, had not brazenly advocated socialized medicine, or neglected a patient. Nothing of the sort. He had contrived to keep a broken-hipped Illinois Civil War veteran alive (he lived to his 106th birthday) by denying him his chief pleasure in life: attending G.A.R. exercises on Memorial...
...Germany two G.I.-cast shows were also packing them in: the 63rd Infantry Division's burlesque of Carmen, the 106th's strictly straight The Voice of the Turtle...
Included in Mr. Stimson's figures were the casualties in the Ardennes sector during the first three weeks of the German breakthrough: 40,000.* This figure still did not entirely reflect the change wrought by the German breakthrough; e.g., the 106th Division, with more than 8,000 casualties, was smashed, had to be rebuilt before it could go into action again...
Against the 1,500 by 2,000 yd. triangular island of Engebi, Harry Hill sent the 22nd Marines, commanded by Colonel John T. Walker of Texas. Against cigar-shaped Eniwetok he sent men of the 106th Infantry (Brooklyn National Guard troops) of Colonel Russell G. Ayers, plus perhaps one battalion of Marines...
...Australia's Minister for External (Foreign) Affairs, Dr. Herbert V. Evatt, who had just arrived in Washington from Australia, translated this disparity in ominous terms: "This week Port Moresby experienced its 106th air raid when 100 Japanese planes attacked the garrison. . . . The heaviest attack yet made on Rabaul by [Allied] forces of the Southwest Pacific Area has consisted of 37 aircraft...