Word: cementation
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...city squatted on a towering bluff above the forests and marshes across the Desna. It looked shabby and scarred and a little indolent, for its steel mills and cement plants were silent and its people hid in dark corners. Atop the cliff German soldiers were building new defenses. Beyond the river two grimy, shattered railroad stations echoed the rumble of troop trains. And from the forests guerrillas watched the city, and emerged at night to derail German trains, ambush convoys, kill sentries...
...What prompted restrictions on civilian movements along the southern English coast? Did the ban on seashore visitors, the barbed-wire barricades and cement blocks on certain roads, presage an invasion of the continent...
...Minster advertised in the Courier-Times: "FOR SALE-George, our pig. . . . Don't know what he weighs, but I can only lift one end of him at a time. . . . He sits down to meals. By mistake he has been fed laying mash and commercial fertilizer and once Portland cement. All seem to agree with...
...House of Lords Brigadier General Sir Henry Page Croft made an admission: signposts were being restored in rural Britain; tank-traps, ditches and trenches had been filled in; cement and iron roadblocks were no longer considered "operationally necessary." The Lords nodded solemn approval. Britons, in the 201st week of war, took scant notice of what would have been amazing news a year...
...vice commissar for Foreign Affairs, Alexander Korneichuk, and an indefatigable writer, wrote to Premier Joseph Stalin: "The Poles in the U.S.S.R. are deeply convinced that consolidation of Polish-Soviet friendship [is] essential to Polish national interests." Rumbled Stalin in reply: "Thanks. . . . The Soviet Union will do everything possible to cement the friendship and assist in the recreation of a strong and independent Poland...