Word: ditches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...military honor left. Not only were men like Marshal Edward Smigly-Rydz (now also in Rumania) criticized for their professional handling of the Polish Army, but they were roundly condemned for leaving their country while their Army was still fighting. Exception was General Casimir Sosnokowski, who led a last-ditch offensive action against the eastbound Germans near Lwów even while Soviet troops approached from the other direction. Last week General Sosnokowski arrived safely in Paris, and his aide, a Colonel Dehnel, told newsmen the story of the General's escape...
...from the German radio. Samples: "Today a highly pregnant German woman . . . was kicked in the abdomen by Polish beasts until she died at the wayside"; "a four-year-old boy was torn away from his mother . . . his hand was cut off and he was left to die in the ditch." Another atrocity charged to Poland was the murder of a girl in New Jersey, in connection with which her Polish father, a clergyman, is under arrest...
...August 15, 1914-the end of eight years' struggle during which Dr. William Crawford Gorgas licked yellow fever and General George Washington Goethals' 50,000 ditch diggers licked 200,000,000 cubic yards of dirt and rock-the day the Panama Railroad's steamship Ancon made the first transit from Atlantic to Pacific...
...anniversary trip through the Canal, 155,131 merchantmen of all nations had made the transit carrying more than 500,000,000 tons of cargo, paying an average of $4,000 each, grossing the U. S. $465,000,000 in tolls on an investment of $366,650,000 in ditch digging...
...automobile near Alcala de Henares when three men in the uniform of Army captains raised their arms in a signal to stop. It was an ambush. Seven hitchhikers climbed in the car, shot the Major, his 17-year-old daughter, the chauffeur, then tossed the bodies into a ditch...