Word: cementation
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...George Shedden ("Old Dob Dob") Dobbie, 66, pious, pink-cheeked, former Governor and Commander of the bomb-torn Island of Malta (until he retired in 1942), arrived in the U.S. to begin a series of lectures sponsored by the Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. Crusading Puritan Dobbie hopes to cement U.S.-British relations...
Deliberately, Taub left transportation from the program, to be planned separately. But the industrial program provides for part of the equipment needed to expand transportation in China. The plan includes cement plants, locomotive and freight-car shops, and factories to make earth-moving equipment. It also plans to locate many industries at Jap-held centers like Peiping and Tientsin...
...something like a Blitzkrieg, the damage could not be minimized; nor could U.S. losses in men and materiel. There the Germans had surged past U.S. garrisons (as at Wiltz and Bastogne), destroying or cutting off large units. In the Bastogne and Arlon areas the surge had cut the wide cement road and the Liège-Metz railroad over which U.S. supplies had moved. In the Saint-Hubert area the Germans were in range of other lateral arteries...
...four: stung twice by swarms of bees, kicked by a horse, struck by lightning, punctured in the stomach by falling on a stick while running away from a bull, treed by another bull, gouged in three fingers by a saw, hit under the eye by a cement mixer crank...
...first lines of the West Wall had come apart at a critical point, and he had no first-rate fighting men to cement the breaches. The might of Eisenhower's armies pressed in on him, threatened to engulf him at a dozen points, and he did not have the transport to shift his reserves (if any) to meet the worst of the threats...