Word: causeway
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...addition to its rigorous physical examination, the program requires a mental apitude test much like that given to would-be pilots; its object is more to measure general intelligence than specific information. The details of enlistment as an air crewman are handled in Boston by Lt. Sussenguth at 150 Causeway Street...
...like stone or struggled vainly, for a moment, in a tangle of baggage and bodies. Horses rolled from the embankment on top of them; while on either side of the breach the relentless canoes plied spears and clubs and arrows. A long-drawn scream rose from the water. . . . The causeway had become a solid writhing of agonized life fighting for itself...
...Antwerp gate was Walcheren Island, north of the Scheldt estuary that leads to Antwerp. There some 7,000 bitter-ending Germans held fast: they had to be eliminated before the Allies could send ships in to the port. By land Walcheren could be reached only by a causeway from the pipe-shaped peninsula of South Beveland, but the Germans were holding that bottleneck with murderous fire. The Allied solution: a seaborne attack...
...French Red Cross workers cycled along the causeway that leads across the marshes outside Dunkirk. They passed safely through the German lines, pedaled through no man's land to the British lines. There they delivered a message from the German garrison commander. He wanted a truce to permit evacuation of Dunkirk's 20,000 civilians before the final battle, in which the city was certain to be destroyed...
...Saint-Malo, a lesser port on the northern coast, the situation was different. The Germans had 10,000 men in the defenses when a U.S. spearhead drove across the causeway and into the ancient, walled, seagirt city. By this week the U.S. forces had killed, captured or wounded 7,000 of them, held nine-tenths of the town...