Word: apartment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Colonel Shoup wiped his red forehead with a grimy sleeve, said: "Well, I think we're winning, but the bastards have got a lot of bullets left. I think we'll clean up tomorrow." The Colonel was right. On the third day the Japs began to fall apart. The Marines advanced inland at a mounting pace, overran Betio's valuable airfield, bottled the Japs in the island's tail...
...draft official asked, "What do you do?" Tufts said that he worked for Paramount. "Oh," nodded the official, "stunt man." Said an attendant, as Tufts went out, a 4-F for keeps: "Don't sneeze, Bud, when you're going down the stairs. You might fall apart...
Phillips Brooks House has other services apart from those of the University Committee. Its parlor on the first floor is open to service people as a lounge from 8 o'clock in the morning until 10 at night. On the third floor are ping-pong tables, darts, and other means of recreation, and that's where the dances are held...
...wide belt between the Red Army and its base warehouses has been laid waste by the Germans. This means that, apart from supplying its fighting men, the Government must feed, clothe and house millions of civilians...
...battle for the railroads. When the Red Army captured Zhitomir, it severed the Wehrmacht's last north-to-south railway in pre-1939 Russia, compelled the Germans to use the single-track line 100 miles to the west, in pre-1939 Poland. This defeat virtually split apart Germany's southern and central armies, will hamper the shifting of reserves from sector to sector to meet Russian attacks. Main attacks...