Word: drove
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germans and the U.S. parachutists were peacefully wining & dining together, served by an Italian civilian. The transfer was quickly arranged. The Nazis bade good-by to their wounded comrade, destroyed their tanks, made off toward the German lines. The parachutists, the wounded and the medics piled into the jeeps, drove to the first-aid station...
...Germans had halted their long retreat at the rocky hilltop town of Troina. Used to driving the enemy out of one position after another, Major General Terry Allen's 1st Division sent one combat team against the town. The Germans ate it up with machine-gun fire and drove it back. Reserves were thrown in; for the first time in Sicily, the whole 1st Division was engaged at once. Every night the Americans advanced, every morning the Germans counterattacked, driving the Americans back down the slopes before Troina. On the evening of the fifth day A.P.'s Donald...
...planes had just dive-bombed the jutting rock of Troina where it stuck up like an island amid the circling mountain peaks. Black smoke curled upward in columns, merging into one big black cloud beneath which Troina disappeared like Camelot fading into the mists. We drove our jeep around a cliff to where an ambulance had halted beneath a ledge. Beyond that no car could advance, for the road was mined. By the ambulance lay a soldier who looked up at us with the tender, inquiring gaze the eyes of wounded men often seem to wear. A first...
...front's over there," he said, waving toward a hill, and drove off. We climbed through rocky fields. There was not a living thing to be seen. Except for the bang of hidden guns and the geysers of black smoke, we seemed to have the battlefield to ourselves...
After a three-hour parley in historic Chateau Frontenac, Prime Ministers Churchill and King drove to the moated, ivy-draped Citadel for lunch. Later they called socially on leaders of the Quebec provincial government. Astute Winston Churchill did not neglect to speak French in the company of French Canadians. Then he parted briefly from his host for sight-seeing at Niagara, where he shopped for scenic postcards and remarked: "I've never seen the water look so green...