Word: bog
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fantastically poor judgment, misinformation (and, as the committee failed to add, political porking) sometimes resulted in bad camp sites. Example: "In locating Camp Davis [N.C.] the site selected was swampy area and in effect a peat bog. The spongy nature of the terrain necessitated the building of concrete parking strips for the mechanized equipment which would rapidly sink if left standing . . . on the ground itself...
Meantime if the scorched earth does not materially delay Adolf Hitler, soaked earth may bog him down. Last week, after early torrents, an Italian reporter wrote: "The German tanks churn up the mud and earth with their treads and reach their objectives only after great difficulty...
...assaulting trucks drove right to the swamp. "Smoky Joe's" engineers quickly cut pine and scrub oak trees, in 25 minutes laid a corduroy road across the bog, swept into the astounded 39th (white) Infantry on the Ninth's southern flank. Again the engineers wove through and around the enemy lines, ran some of their truck-tanks clear to the division command post (but caught no generals; they had fled). Before the games ended, in horrid confusion, the 41st was credited with halting the Ninth Division's planned attack for at least a day, perhaps disrupting...
Hess was sure that if Russia refused the German demands Germany would declare war on Russia. In that event, he feared, if the British Empire and the U.S. continued warring on Germany from the west, Germany would bog down in Russia. And that, he thought, would also bring Communism to Europe...
...main difficulties of the Blue has been its failure to end strong in a game. Usually it has closed the first half with a slight lead, only to bog down in the last five minutes. This has been partly due to a lack of strong reserves...