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Word: chasms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beyond Koto there was a bad stretch of road winding through steep gorges. Moving at 3 m.p.h., the column halted several times while engineers filled shell craters in the road. At one point there was a four-hour stop while the engineers built abutments on both sides of a chasm so that a bridge span would reach across. The airplanes silenced much of the enemy fire, except on one agonizing day when the air cover was grounded by a driving snowstorm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War: Retreat of the 20,000 | 12/18/1950 | See Source »

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