Word: crisscrosses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Last. There was no overall pattern to German resistance. Along the Netherlands front, in the crisscross of canals, Canadians had to battle for every yard as they drove to link up with another drop of airborne troops. There Field Marshal Johannes Blaskowitz, with his 50,000 troops, faced certain isolation. The Germans blew dikes, set up new lines behind 400 square miles of flooded lowlands. Blaskowitz meant to fight to the last...
...informed observer in emphatic agreement with them is Dr. John Biesanz, 31, who went to green Costa Rica on an exchange professorship from Winona State Teachers College in Minnesota. For 16 months he and his wife, Mavis, gathered facts and polled opinion, crisscross and endways. When Dr. Biesanz went into the Army, Mrs. Biesanz finished his report. Costa Rican Life (Columbia University Press; $3), published this month, is a lighter-reading, 272-page Middletown of Central America's cleanest, happiest country. Some findings...
Workers on the 17-mile crisscross tracks exasperatingly dubbed SS&VV RR (Sling Something and Vinegar Valley Railroad), which serve a dump storing $4 billion worth of U.S. ordnance, were busier than they had ever been. At another similarly large British dump there was a similar bustle. The U.S. Army borrowed the British design for bridges, the British borrowed the U.S. K-ration but substituted condensed tea for coffee...
...ground. No, here they were again. Seeming to run ahead of their own sound, they came in from all quarters, strafing the field at zero altitude with simulated machine-gun fire. No one gunner could have followed all of them, or even two of them, in their complicated crisscross of attack...
...even simpler mask is advocated by Dr. Kearney Sauer of the Los Angeles Citizens' Defense Corps: two twelve-inch squares of bed sheeting with a quarter-inch layer of baking soda between, held in even distribution by crisscross stitching. Dampened and held firmly over the face, this napkin will give temporary protection against any gas, according to Dr. Sauer-but not the Army...