Word: ditches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heavily armed soldiers. He would escort us to the command post of Lieut. General Li Mi, commander of the Thirteenth Army Group. He pointed north toward a hill rising like the hump of a razorback hog out of the fields. The truck wallowed off the road through a shallow ditch and followed a telephone wire stretched across the parched, lumpy land, already sown with winter wheat...
Just before his visit to Suchow battlefield, TIME'S Robert Doyle had a look at North China. There Nationalist General Fu Tso-yi, with Reds north, east and south of him, was pulling back from advance positions, preparing for a last-ditch defense of Peiping and Tientsin. Doyle's report...
...Last-ditch campaigning against the War Memorial Committee's $75,000 plaque recommendation will reach a climax today when a pamphlet attacking the proposal goes out to 38,000 alumni of the College...
Burly Ben Reese, managing editor of the Post-Dispatch, promptly roared that the paper would put up Link's $11,000 bond "and will defend him to the last ditch." The Post-Dispatch rushed into print with a Sunday editorial (titled "The Green Machine Fights Back") that snarled: "Cowardly men in Illinois are watching the clock as the hour hand moves toward Election Day . . . They think they can muzzle the Post-Dispatch. They are wrong. The Post-Dispatch will not be intimidated. It will not be gagged." Staffers figured that the charge against Link would be quietly dropped after...
...things man... builds are more of a picture of man than man himself." Trudging inland from Omaha Beach, Gleitsmann got his first look at the bombed-out ruins of Europe, and that somehow completed the picture. He was hit in the hip at the Rhine, rolled into a ditch begging for his lost sketching kit: "In my semiconsciousness it became an obsession . . . The [wounded] men near me-partly out of sympathy and partly because they had a confused impression that something important was missing-began crawling up and down the ditch in a bewildered search...