Word: canale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...walks with a slow, deliberate gait. The nine battle wounds of his youth, even the trouble some one in his groin, have not curbed his legendary virility, but they have reduced his ranging stride. Fortnight ago, when he met President Roosevelt on a U.S. cruiser in the Suez Canal (TIME, March 5), the King looked longingly at the President's well-worn wheelchair...
From the U.S. First Army, fighting towards Cologne last week, came what one correspondent called "a minor epic" of the war. It concerned the building of a bridge. A small column of 8th Division infantry had a fingerhold across the Erft Canal. Ahead of them, the Germans were gathering tanks for a counterattack. Behind them, U.S. combat engineers were building the bridge, to bring up armor to support the infantry...
...engineers, under a rain of shell and mortar fire, worked feverishly all night. At dawn the German tanks began to move up. The doughboys across the canal began to yell for the bridge and for tanks. The engineers, now raked by a murderous spray of German machine-gun fire, coolly and swiftly worked on. Just as the German tanks struck, the last plank fell into place and U.S. tanks rolled across the bridge. They saved the bridgehead and opened the road to Cologne...
...appearances considerable sweetness had been restored to Great Bitter Lake (midway along the Suez Canal) when Franklin Roosevelt aboard his warship successively received King Faronk, Emperor Haile Selassie and King Ibn Saud. The nature of the sweetness, according to a White House announcement...
Journey's end, 800 miles and two days from Jidda, was a crossroad of empires-Great Bitter Lake in the Suez Canal. There, aboard a U.S. cruiser, the President of the U.S. awaited the King of Saudi Arabia...