Word: basement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shell. The master and his family, who live in this volcanic world with calm aplomb, have turned over most of the manor house to U.S. officers. Relations between manor and mess are happy, especially so since the day U.S. troops pumped out the manor house's flooded basement and discovered my lord's lost hunting horn. In still another English depot, covering...
Another Village. Through shell-scarred olive and fig groves on a terraced hillside, the Americans moved into San Vittore, a crescent-shaped village converted into a German fortress. For two days a bitter, bits-&-pieces battle tossed and tumbled from house to house, basement to basement. Every one of San Vittore's 200-odd buildings was wrecked. The Germans fired machine guns, machine pistols, rifles and rifle grenades from every window and balcony. The Americans answered with bazookas, grenades, quick-firing 37-mm. antitank guns. So close and confused was the melee that officers talking over field telephones...
...climbed aboard the U.S. train. Their German religion has given way to Congregationalism. Few of the young generation can speak a German word. Whenever a Warden boy leaves for the war there is a typical American party (coffee, food, Farmer in the Dell, Drop the Handkerchief) in the school basement. Their Americanization is ably abetted by the high-school faculty, which puts great emphasis on the history of the U.S. and the State of Washington...
Beyond the Town. The German resistance was skillful, fanatic. But the Canadians went ahead relentlessly, day after day, house after house. They defied the Nazi flame throwers, bayoneted the enemy shock troops in the basement dugouts. Last week they drove the last German from a town where every building lay leveled or gutted...
Grancsay had his armorers hammer out their steel in a crowded Museum basement. The end product is a suit of plates attached to each other by shock cords and springs and equipped with an instantaneous release (for quick shedding when parachutes are the thing to wear...