Word: ditched
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russians also probed East Prussia-cautiously. Here if anywhere the enemy was girded for a last-ditch fight. In ten days, the Germans dug 1,800 miles of trenches, and Russian patrols reported a proliferation of machine-gun nests, antitank ditches. The Germans called out every able-bodied man & woman between 15 and 65 to work on the defenses...
...Saint-Nazaire took terrific poundings from land and air, but the Germans held on doggedly. For U.S. troops there was no choice but to fight their way in; the ports were needed by the A.E.F. and every day they held out was a day more for the last-ditch defenders...
...Dear Mom: We were going through some hedgerows toward Saint-Lô today, Mom, and a German burp-gun got on me and I ducked in a ditch and set off a Teller mine, and a Tiger tank ran right over my ditch, and a squad of Boche infantry started heaving fragmentation grenades at me and I got to thinking, Mom, of old Bess and her about to have pups again, and Mom, we can't have them pups born into a world that ain't free and bright, can we, even...
...grabbed Socialist Deputy Giacomo Matteotti, leader of the opposition to Benito Mussolini. They wrestled him into the car. It raced away. That was the last that was seen of Matteotti until his body, stabbed 36 times, beaten, partly burned, was found a few days later in a Roman ditch...
...infantrymen moving through barrage smoke west of Saint-Lô. He forgot caution, barely noticed a wave of Marauders coming in low behind him as someone yelled: "Watch out, their bombs are falling short." In the moment-too-long he waited to grab his camera before jumping for a ditch, a bomb fragment got him. He was the 18th U.S. newsman to be killed in World...