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Word: crag (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile, in the harsh highlands of Greek Macedonia, a force of 15,000 men banded together, cut the short-cut railroad to the Russian front, via Bulgaria, in five places and attacked two Nazi troop trains, leaving 225 dead & dying Germans. From crag tops they rolled huge boulders down into narrow bends, stopped traffic along the only motor road to Bulgaria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts, THE BALKANS: Free Men | 6/1/1942 | See Source »

...Cover) He clasps the crag with crooked hands . . . he watches from his mountain walls, and like a thunderbolt he falls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Eagle of Yugoslavia | 5/25/1942 | See Source »

...Betty" Stark will headquarter in London where he will work with the British Admiralty. He will relieve studious, crag-faced Vice Admiral Robert Lee Ghormley, who is headed for a sea command, probably an important...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy And Civilian Defense - NAVY: Sundownet's Sunrise | 3/16/1942 | See Source »

From that exalted eyrie where top-ranking U.S. Air Force officers clasp the crag, a new eaglet stretched his wings and soared. Succeeding to the job which Lieut. General Delos Emmons left when he took over the Hawaiian Department, Major General Carl Spaatz became Chief of the Army Air Force Combat Command...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: Spaatz Up | 2/9/1942 | See Source »

...Rothschild ocC, speaking of the group which climbed through ley rain and snow on Mount Adams, where the weather took a toll of one camper's life this weekend. While the mercury dropped close to zero on the mountain top the Outing Club boys found sung haven in the Crag Camp, below freeline...

Author: By Steve Winship, | Title: Forest Fire and Blizzards Fail to Deter Outing Club | 10/15/1941 | See Source »

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