Word: builded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rapido River valley on the wider front near Cassino the Allies forced their way foot by foot across the icy stream. Combat engineers rushed in to build bridges and clear mines out of roads while German shells slammed blindly through their protecting smoke screen. Planes and barrages smote the Monte Cassino Abbey positions, but when infantrymen tried to press forward the Germans were still dug in on the mountain and pouring back murderous patterns of machine-gun fire. As at Anzio, the best the Allies could claim was stalemate...
Better than most, the Chinese knew that the Jap was no superman. But the enemy kept on trying in his own unsubtle way to build up the myth. Even when U.S. airmen shot up Jap craft over such bombers' targets as Canton and Hong Kong, he kept at it. In such cases he collected airmen who had been shot down, paraded them blindfolded through the streets to convince the Chinese of Jap superiority...
Where the corn grows tall in Iowa, almost everybody knows hearty, conscientiously corny Ray Anderson. In blizzards and blistering heat, through muck and manure, he has been rambling its countryside for 17 years, helping build for the Cedar Rapids Gazette a circulation of 45,000, for himself a 242-lb. girth and a reputation as a top U.S. newspaper farm page editor. This week 55-year-old Anderson moved to broader pastures. His new beat: the rural Midwest, as a roving editor of Farm Journal and Farmer's Wife (TIME...
Like the latter, the new battery has an electrolytic fluid (sulfuric acid) and is recharged by passing a current through the fluid to build up the potential of the positive pole. But the new battery is made of new materials that cut weight 20% and improve efficiency. It is made non-spilling and hence portable by an absorbent filling which soaks up the electrolytic fluid. The absorbed fluid still conducts current. Thus the battery works just as well when its container is cracked or shot away. The battery's plastic case does not corrode or absorb acid; this prevents...
...baby farms," is now selling them to his parishioners at $250 a half acre. Profits will go toward paving streets, installing a water and sewer system. Father Urbain's purchasers may not subdivide their plots, must sign a pledge to build a house...