Word: barren
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Curtain. Cabled TIME Correspondent Jack Belden: "For the soldiers who had fought so bitterly a few days previously in the barren mountains to the west, the finale in Sicily seemed an anticlimax. In Messina the doughboy was lost; there was no one to fight. Private Hays Cathey stood in the street, hardly knowing what to do. 'That's all there is, there ain't no more,' he commented. Then, he sat on a debris-littered curbstone, opened a tin of cheese and disregarded everything...
...Like Stupidity." He was born in a middle-class family at Foochow in 1862. American missionaries were his first teachers. Later, at a private college, Lin Sen acquired an old-fashioned Chinese education. Later still he went to Hawaii, then to the U.S. He was living in a single barren room in San Francisco when he joined the Kuomintang, then a secret society. When the Republic was established Lin Sen returned to China and, in 1912, was elected Senator in the first parliament, a post he held until...
Captain Robert Thompson, who commands the Scouts, picks his men for one chief quality: ability to live for long periods off the barren Alaska land, subzero blasts to mosquito-clotted summer mugginess. Their physical endurance is far beyond the ordinary soldier's; one Scout walked 90 miles over corrugated tundra in three days. Scouts use Trapper Nelson packs instead of the Army's steel-framed rucksack, shun Army K and C rations for dehydrated beef and other foods which weigh less. A Scout's greatest fear is that he may fall through the ice, numb his hands...
...Shade. D.T.C. is the Army's only training theater of operations. Like a battle area, it is organized into two zones: an inner combat zone, itself a fifth larger than Switzerland; an outer communications zone for supply troops. It spreads out over a barren, treeless land of salt lakes, crazily ripped by jagged, granite mountains. Dryness keeps the heat barely endurable: Last week it was 120° in rare patches of shade...
...miles from Massacre Bay to Chichagof Harbor, on bleak and barren Attu, are a five-hour walk. Covering this distance in the wake of the Japs' last stand at the end of May, TIME, Correspondent Robert Sherrod gained a gruesome insight into the nature of the enemy in the Pacific. In a two-mile stretch there were 800 Japanese dead. Many of them had killed themselves. Reported Correspondent Sherrod...