Word: bend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Encouraged by their success at the Princeton game, the H.A.A. will conduct another bend auction between the halves of the Brown game tomorrow...
Curious soldiers clustered on a New Guinea riverbank. As the late afternoon sunlight slanted through coconut-palm fronds, a raft drifted around the river bend. Small frizzled-haired Papuan natives guided it slowly to shore. Heedless of cries of "Don't bother, we'll get it for you" from the soldiers on the bank, four Australian soldiers aboard the raft slowly gathered up possessions that only a soldier can truly treasure-firearms, rain capes, a few battered odds & ends. As they turned their sunken eyes shoreward, the shouting and chatter of the spectators ceased. The crowd parted...
Then another raft rounded the bend, and another, until eleven rafts had brought to safety 33 footsore, tattered Australians, remnants of a band of 50 that had battled the Japs on the north side of the Owen Stanley range. Outflanked and outnumbered, for 44 days they had fought off the Japs and beaten their way over jungle trails back to the Allied-held side of the mountains. Haggard faces, tattered uniforms, mute fatigue told a story of privation and courage that won the respectful silence of the other soldiers waiting at the jungle camp...
...drizzling rain at the airport he was met by the most important person in North China, Major General Hu Tsung-nan. It is the crucial job of stocky, 42-year-old General Hu, with China's finest troops, to prevent the Japanese from crossing the Yellow River bend near Sian. The front has been stationary there for three years. If the Japanese ever got bridgeheads, they might then find it easy to conquer Chungking from the north...
...river's edge. He ducked through a hole and entered the labyrinth of dugouts and trenches which are the strongest Chinese fortification in North China. Communication trenches were cut deep in the yellow ground and covered with logs and earth. They led to a point overlooking the river bend. The trenches fed into concrete rifle and machine-gun emplacements, from which a screen of fire could be dropped on any attempted river crossing. Willkie's burly shoulders did not fit some of the narrow trenches, and his clothes were soon dirtied and stained with yellow sand. He paced...