Word: closers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pickets yelled: "You dirty . . . scabs." The four guards reached a hand switch. Some of the pickets moved toward them. One of the guards yelled, "Don't come any closer," and fired his gun into the ground. Then there was a lot of shooting...
...from the pastures of statecraft and diplomacy-and its diplomats farthest away from the maneuver grounds. The results, at Pearl Harbor, and in North Africa and Italy, had sometimes been disastrous, sometimes scandalous. Last week, the State, War and Navy Departments agreed at last to cuddle up a little closer...
...plan for closer cooperation was sponsored by Vice Admiral Harry Wilbur Hill, veteran of combined amphibious operations; Major General Alfred M. Gruenther, a top planner from SHAEF; Brigadier General Truman Hempel Landon, a bombing expert, and Donald S. Russell, Assistant Secretary of State...
Ruin in the City. The closer we get, the greater is the evidence of destruction. Houses at the outskirts are all severely damaged. Further in, all dwellings have been consumed by fire. We make our way to the street on the river bank. Twice we are forced into the river itself by the heat and smoke. All along we meet frightfully burned people. By the wayside are many dead and dying. On the Misasi Bridge we are met by a procession of soldiers who have suffered burns. Abandoned on the bridge, there stand with sunken heads a number of horses...
...their experiences. They were in their rooms at the Parish House when came the intense light and immediately thereafter the sound of breaking windows, walls and furniture. The Church and all buildings in the vicinity collapsed at once. Soon fires which had begun some distance away were raging ever closer. It was high time to flee...