Word: echternach
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...long ago I heard from another TIME-reader who was also in the throes of writing a book. She is Mrs. Willa Thompson Trierweiler, and she had just returned to her home in Echternach, Luxembourg, after a long stay in a Swiss hospital, when she wrote me. She found a stack of copies of TIME awaiting her, and proceeded to go through them. One article that caught her attention was the letter I wrote to you about TIME'S Quebec correspondent, Roger Lemelin (TIME, Aug. 18), and she was struck by the number of ways in which his experiences...
...secondary roads north and south of the town. The 82nd Airborne had put up a fierce defense around Stavelot, the 7th Armored between Saint-Vith and Vielsalm, the 1st Infantry at the north shoulder of the salient below Monschau, and the 4th Infantry at the south shoulder, around Echternach. The two infantry outfits had prevented Rundstedt from widening the salient's base. They were pegs that did not pull...
...right flank, recaptured Grandmenil and Manhay. On the south, General Patton's armor blasted a corridor to Bastogne, pushed on to the north and then west to encircle the German tip south of Saint-Hubert. Patton also broadened his attacking front all the way east to Echternach...
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