Word: drear
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once ashore in that "queer, drear, roasting land," the 30,000 G.I.s of the P.G.C. (which meant Persian Gulf Command in Washington, and People Going Crazy in Iran) pulled off one of the great jobs of the war, the Lend-Lease supplying of the Red Army. They were "a weird, shambling, offbeat outfit" of white and Negro road builders, stevedores, engineers, mechanics and medics. In all their months of labor, from the winter of 1942 to the winter of 1944, they never saw an enemy plane or tank, never ducked an angry bullet. But their struggle to do an essential...
Using the salvaged lamp, the Norwegians signaled a wandering Catalina of the British Coastal Command, and on June 2 a British force arrived with supplies. The reinforced Norwegians moved against Longyear City. The Germans had gone. Since then drear, desolate Spitsbergen has been in Allied hands...