Word: chalks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reynaud, a thrifty man, had a 21-year-old map in his office. Instead of buying a new one, he kept up with history by marking Germany's acquisitions in red chalk, Russia's in yellow. In the photograph Germany and Russia looked like one. The censor did not like it, ordered the map retouched. (In the first copies of the photograph of the Welles-Reynaud conversations which reached the U. S., the map was blanked out entirely.) L'Illustration, more concerned with art than geography, sketched in Europe's frontiers with considerable inaccuracy. The borders...
...Ypres, and on the chalk ridge of Pozi...
After a scoreless first period, the Big Green sextet, paced by speedy Captain Dan Sullivan, manufactured five goals, four of them within eight minutes. In this canto, the Crimson defensemen were caught flat-footed on several occasions, twice permitting Sullivan to chalk up solo tallies while a mate was serving penalty time...