Word: drew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...northern Italy in his headquarters, noted that the wide Po River had remarkably few bridges. All the German supplies for the fighting front, all the raw materials for war industries in the Po Valley, had to funnel through some two dozen rail and road spans. Major Mallory drew his plan, presented it to his commander, Major General John K. Cannon of the Twelfth (Tactical) Air Force...
...Here was something different. During mopping-up operations a detachment of marines on amphibious tractors saw seven Japanese off-shore on a coral reef and drove out to get them. As the amphtracks approached, six of the Japs knelt down on the reef. Then the seventh, apparently an officer, drew a sword and began methodically to hack at the necks of his men. Four heads had rolled into the sea before the marines closed in. Then the officer, sword in hand, charged the amphtracks. He and the remaining two Japs were mowed down...
This week Commissioner Moses drew a learned rebuttal from Harvard University's Professor of Architecture Joseph Hudnut. In the New York Times, with measured sarcasm, 58-year-old, Harvard-trained Professor Hudnut made "A-'Long-Haired' Reply to Moses." Excerpts...
Neither did the League. Only four teams played last year: the Rockford (Ill.) Peaches, South Bend Blue Sox, Racine (Wis.) Belles, Kenosha (Wis.) Comets. In a 108-game schedule, they drew some 200,000 fans and a $125,000 gate, but wound up $75,000 in the hole...
...Responsibility. The plans drawn at Bretton Woods for the Fund and the Bank will not become effective until ratified by the nations whose delegates drew them. But in instigating the conference and pushing it to a successful conclusion the U.S. had assumed its biggest postwar responsibility to date...