Word: crested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...White House. We began moving forward. Officers yelled: "Scatter! You want to all get killed at once?" We panted up a big hill. In the middle of an almond orchard we came out on another crest. Here, with two walkie-talkies, the Colonel again set up his command post...
Lieut. Walter Bowland knelt on the crest of our hill directing mortar fire. His judgment had to be fine, as Kelly was getting closer to the Germans...
...Near the crest we saw a wounded lieutenant, with two worried medics. He had been hit in the stomach. "How are you?" one of us said...
...Beveridge to point out that Charles Darwin was born the same day as Lincoln, that Victor Hugo, Cavour, Disraeli, Dickens, Bryce, Thackeray and Bismarck were all born at about the same time. To support his idea that unsettled weather has something to do with it, he notes that a crest of great sun spot activity in 1778 was followed within a few years by a historic high point in mankind's production of geniuses, that the Golden Age of Greece coincided with an alltime high in solar turbulence...
...veteran construction engineers by holing through in two years (the best estimated time was four to eight). This put Long John in the rockhog hall of fame. Two years ago he started the western end of the Alva Adams tunnel, a 13-mile tube 13,000 ft. beneath the crest of the Rockies. The Adams tunnel Government project intended to carry enough water from Grand Lake to Estes Park to irrigate 615,000 acres of Colorado sugar beets and to supply 900,000,000 k.w.h. of electricity. War stopped the work...