Word: columnized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...south of the Mareth Line, British and Fighting French units had made a wide sweep and were clawing their way towards El Hamma. Rommel sent German armor to bend back this threatening arm. Allied armor and an "unprecedented" onslaught of aerial power met the German column. So terrific was the air attack that even veteran Germans wilted. Only 20 miles from Gabès, the column drove on, threatening to close Rommel's corridor of retreat (see map). At that juncture, Montgomery shifted and struck again at the Mareth Line...
Under the open sky in the bright glare of the moon the thin column of soldiers advancing with the slow step of a funeral procession appeared pitifully small. As they went with dead, plodding steps by me and up and out of sight over the slope, I thought that in the final analysis it is not planes, nor tanks, nor guns that bring victory in battle, but the infantry that go forward and drive the enemy from their positions and open a way for the rest of the army to follow over their bodies...
Near the fringes of the Everglades, where Army engineers have ripped pines from the white sand and replaced them with unlovely cantonment buildings, a column of bronzed troops swung crisply from a company street. A band fell in at the head of the column, flashed back the bright Florida sun from its burnished instruments as it thumped the Army Air Corps march. Its song rose and fell against a discordant background: the muffled thud of shotguns, the crisp crack of .30-caliber machine guns, the sulky bark...
...course of defending Son Randolph Churchill fortnight ago (TIME, March 29), Prime Minister Winston Churchill told the House of Commons it was permissible for soldiers on active service to express themselves in print. Last week, the London Evening Standard published a six-column Letter From A Soldier which pungently voiced many a Briton's opinion of talkative politicians...
...food in Harvard Union ... Mike J. Horn enjoyed Dorris Dox's party last Saturday evening out in Dorchester. It was a rail trip to got there, but Mike reports the expedition will worth while ... Anything that happened to his company's personnel at the Regimental Hall last week this column knows nothing about and is not responsible for ... Norm Bradley was back on time Sunday night, which makes news ... Hay, Resenthal, how's the soap chip business Hariford Hop ... Bob Rash and Mcauly were really in the glow at the Siatler Saturday are ... Heard on the Sieg line, "How does...