Word: apartment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...month before they lined up, 50 miles apart, for the Battle of Louisiana, the soldiers of the two armies had been put through smaller-scale field maneuvers. They were in good training. Newsmen noted their endurance, their cheerful disregard of stream and swamp as they marched into position, their scrap and determination when the fight was on. Ben Lear's Red Army was given the northern position. Numerically inferior to the Blues (125,000 to 215,000), it had the advantage of the better position (close to the Red River) and the powerful punch of the First Corps...
...Apart from the battle's result, Army men as well as lay observers were mightily pleased with what they saw: two well-trained, hardened armies whose soldiers knew their jobs and were keen to do them well...
...lovely dream was rudely shattered. The Bolsheviks overran large chunks of northern Persia. Along the shores of the Caspian the British, assisted by the Persian Cossack Brigade, vainly tried to stop them. Those of the old Tsarist officers who were not killed, fled; the brigade started to fall apart...
...minutes to go, high-tailed it for the wardroom and coffee. The rest waited. Upwind from the loudspeaker came ripped fragments of speech: "five minutes"-"one minute." Everybody stood up, tamped the cotton tighter in his ears, cupped his hands over them in the bargain, spread his feet wide apart...
...team race from the word Go. Brooklyn's Flock and St. Louis' Redbirds had run bill & bill for the National League lead for four full months. Never were they more than four games apart. Last week, when the Cardinals swooped into Brooklyn, the Dodgers were one and a half games in front, with 34 games...