Word: camped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...student were W. V. Graham Matthews '45, James C. Maxwell '50, George I. Bell '48, Harry C. King '49, and William Fix of Yale. On July 22 they set up base camp in the mountains of British Columbia, 250 miles above the United States border...
...airplane was supposed to drop food at the mountain top camp on July 25, but storms cancelled the flight. On July 28, some of the men climbed to high camp and waited again for the plane. They saw it approach, circle several times, then fly away--without dropping any food. The winds were too strong...
...situation was getting grim," said King. "Food was very low at base camp...
When the American Army drove the Germans out of Italy in 1945, it took among other prisoners Ezra Pound, expatriate poet, radio propagandist for Mussolini and self-made pundit who thought Hitler a "martyr" comparable to Joan of Arc. After a short stay in a prison camp near Pisa, where he continued to write poetry, the aging (63), rheumy-eyed poet was brought back to the U.S. to face treason charges. The case never came to trial; instead he was declared insane, and still languishes in St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington...
...battle of El Alamein, an Italian army officer named Giuseppe Berto was captured. He spent three years in a Texas prison camp. When he returned to Italy at the war's end, he found a publisher willing to take a chance on the rough first novel he had written behind the wire. Unexpectedly it became a bestseller in a country where few can afford to buy books...