Word: chained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soldiers who get "up. the chain" to the mainland once in a blue moon are amazed at the trees, the occasional sunny days, the surprising number of women (mostly Civil Service workers Or Army nurses) around town...
...Chain. Germany had the troops to send to chosen points. Reinforcements still arrived in Sicily. Into northern Italy, above the River Po, other Germans moved from Austria, from Yugoslavia, and possibly from southern Italy, which the Germans patently did not expect to hold. From the area of Udine and Venice they spread west almost to Milan. Nazi troops also concentrated in the upper Adriatic's Istrian peninsula, where the late Poet Gabriele d'Annunzio seized Fiume after World...
...Every division taken from these reserves was one less for a time of final need in Russia, or for defense in western Europe, or for additional reinforcements, at the points the Allies actually chose for invasion in the south. The once invincible German Army was caught in a fateful chain of unhappy events and conflicting needs...
...orphan, the Blue Network (TIME, Jan. 11), left the orphanage last week. Edward John Noble (Life Savers) took the foundling away for $8,000,000 cash. For a year and a half the No. 3 U.S. chain had been up for sale because FCC decided that no broadcasting corporation should own two networks...
...hospital. Presently the ranking officer of the party disappeared into the toilet and the colonel heard an unusual fuss. He went in to see what the trouble was and found the officer standing on the seat, pouring the bucket of water into the overhead reservoir, preparing to pull the chain. That, someone remarked, was what the Army calls "going through channels...