Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Novel-reading admirers of Ernest Hemingway, who boasts that he sharply distinguishes in his own mind between Novelist Hemingway (gruesome, gory, hyper-cynical) and Journalist Hemingway (objective, conscientious and in good taste), were struck by his description of signs of Italian valor on the battlefield of "little Caporetto" or Brihuega last week. "The scrub oak woods," cabled Journalist Hemingway, "are still full of Italian dead that burial squads have not yet reached. Tank tracks lead to where they died, not as cowards but defending skillfully constructed machine-gun and automatic-rifle positions, where the tanks found them and where they...
...Reports that Brihuega was simply an air victory, with [Italian] columns stampeded and panicked without fighting, are corrected when the battlefield is studied. It was a bitterly fought seven-day battle, much of the time rain and snow making auto transport impossible...
...Thermit, a mixture of iron oxide and powdered aluminum which burns at 3,000° C., was the chief World War incendiary. It was used in conjunction with oil to spread fires which the thermit started. Since there is not much of importance to burn on a battlefield, Author Prentiss believes the chief future use of thermit and other incendiaries will be against cities...
...secret, but this does not seem likely because the realm of possible chemical compounds has been too well explored. Moreover, nothing could be plausibly called a supergas until it had proved itself in practice. Many an idea that looked brilliant in the laboratory has been a dud on the battlefield...
...third-degree, beaten up, constantly threatened with death, he was finally clapped into Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin's strongest. Few months later, before his identity had been discovered, he and a few bold comrades escaped. A seasoned veteran now at 24, O Malley was sent back to his guerrilla battlefield, this time with 7,000 men in his command. He found the revolutionary movement driven literally underground, with headquarters in dugouts, but with a new spirit of hope: the lost cause was beginning to win. While he was planning bigger and better raids, peace came at last...