Word: countless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...going to do what countless soldiers have done before me-wait, sitting...
...Eighty per cent of the population of some villages has been wiped out. Countless thousands of children are orphans. I have seen orphanages where children died at the rate of 20 a day and in other homes, still-living foundlings condemned as hopeless and their bodies placed in a room already strewn with dead children...
...Easy. For weeks, landing craft cluttered up Allied-held harbors in the south. Countless Italians bandied the news, until it seeped across the front line to the Germans, across the Mediterranean to Algiers. Allied intelligence officers cursed, still hoped that the elements of surprise in time and place would fool...
...Germans did not hold. Rokos-sovsky's men marched into Mozyr, the Pripet Marshes' second strongest base. This week they headed toward the Wehrmacht's strongest base in the region, Pinsk, 97 miles away. Behind, in the snow-garlanded forests, countless German stragglers froze to death...
...barren steppes behind the Ural Mountains more than a decade ago Soviet workers wrested a city of iron: Magnitogorsk. They paid for it with blood and sweat and countless rubles. They built it with modern tools and with their naked hands, and they are still building it today. The reward for them, and for those who built other great industrial centers in the Urals, was nothing less than the salvation of their country from the Germans...