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...period consists of delving in a heap of sand to unearth a collection of bones previously planted there by an instructor. Once in a while the prospective ditch-diggers go farther afield for their exploits than their little piles of sand. Last spring, for instance, they excavated a colonial cellar in Concord...
...Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton. . . . According to Lyte's History of Eton College, the only record of any remark of this kind is contained in a contemporary account . . . : "He looked into the garden and asked what had become of the broad ditch over which he used often to leap. He said: 'I really believe I owe my spirit of enterprise to the tricks I used to play in the garden...
Smith rushed a semiconscious woman to the hospital before she should give birth to a baby. On the way he skidded into the ditch, wrecked his car. He hailed another car and took her to the hospital in it. At the hospital, it was discovered that the baby had already been born. Meanwhile, Farmer Joseph Siefert. on his way to town, saw something in the snow near the doctor's abandoned car. It was the newborn baby. He wrapped it in a blanket and rushed it to town. "We must have dropped him in the snow," announced the incredulous...
...situation was not at all like that at Sidi Barrani, Bardia and Tobruch. There were no rigid, prepared defenses around Dérna (see map), no circles of wire and ditch. But the natural defense was rugged: a deep, wide wadi, the eroded path of an ancient stream. With more spunk than they had shown in seven weeks' war, 10,000 Italians fought to keep many more attackers from swarming into the wadi. Italian aircraft were active, tanks gave fight, artillery answered stubbornly. But numbers and more efficient supply told in the end. The town capitulated...
...triple blast of land artillery, air bombs and shelling from ships opened. Sappers went out to grade the tank ditch and kill land mines. Tanks poured through, wagging their tails of infantry behind them. Some Aussies crept ahead under cross-curtain of tank and machine-gun fire to cut barbed-wire entanglements. Then the full power of attack brushed past pillboxes, deployed back and crushed them from behind. That accounted for the outer semicircle. For the inner, the process was the same. By noon both had been broken. By sunset the attackers had pushed eight miles to the heights looking...