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...Where is Tito?" he barked. I pointed at the limestone crag beyond the town. "Tito was there last night but he is not there this morning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: A Day in Yugoslavia | 6/26/1944 | See Source »

Escorted by guards we had left our village at dusk and gone to the foot of a goat path. After an exchange of passwords, a new guard was assigned to lead us straight up the rocks beside a waterfall deep into a fissure in the towering limestone crag. Midway up we entered a vast grotto with an underground mountain lake and turned back, panting, to look down upon the majestic moonlit landscape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: TITO'S YUGOSLAVIA | 5/22/1944 | See Source »

...Germans have known for some time that this was Tito's headquarters. A few weeks ago 15 German Stukas dive-bombed the lofty crag in full daylight with no more effect than fleabites on a bull's skin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: TITO'S YUGOSLAVIA | 5/22/1944 | See Source »

...first week the speed march is only seven miles, but it takes tired men through mud, up crag and down hill. After the second week it is lengthened out to 15 miles, and it is made without stop in two and a half hours, or the insistently casual British instructors are displeased...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Rangers in Scotland | 3/8/1943 | See Source »

...thousand-foot cliffs of the Final Mountains rising out of barren foothills of Superior, Ariz, looked good to crag-browed Mannheim Kalaf in 1916. They reminded him of his native Syria. He settled down there and went to work in the copper mine. He liked his new home and work. But something was missing. No hajjel. Arizona, fine state though it is, had no hajjeL

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Kalaf s Hajjel | 10/5/1942 | See Source »

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