Word: el
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...know yet what the newspapers have published about the capture and destruction of El Wak and the part that the South African troops played, but just in case you are interested I am going to give you a firsthand account...
...colonel addressed us on Friday evening the 13th and informed us that we'd be leaving at 6 a.m. the following day for the purpose of capturing El Wak. Big cheers, beer, sentiment, fellows pulling others to the side and rather shamefacedly asking for nice letters to be written to their families in case anything happened, water checked, rations checked, grenades charged, etc. . . . We were a pretty huge force. . . . Troops from the Gold Coast and East Africans accompanied...
Sunday 5 a.m. we arrived at our jumping-off point. . . . Try and sleep and find it impossible and then the news comes through that our plans have to be changed. The road to El Wak is mined and the Banda are strung in front of the fort in very large numbers and it's our job with A Company in front to mop them...
...Practically all Protestant church services have been forbidden and nearly every Protestant school in the country has been closed, including the interdenominational seminary in Madrid and El Porvenir ("The Future"), the Protestant college...
...England, skiers from the city discovered square dancing, in many another locality, square dances spread from town halls and country fairs to roadside juke joints. Today there are organized square-dance groups in many a city, including New York, El Paso, Chicago and Colorado Springs, where Lloyd Shaw is a particularly zealous propagandist of the sashay. In Massachusetts, an Extension Specialist in Community Organization and Recreation has trained 2,000 young people to call figures, spread their knowledge to some 150,000 others who never do-se-doed in their lives...