Word: epical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...month the 82nd fought as infantry before it was pulled back to England to rest. In September it made another drop, this time in the Nijmegen sector in Holland. In December, near Stavelot, the 82nd fought on the northern side of the Ardennes bulge, while the loist staged its epic stand to the south, at Bastogne. The 82nd finished the European war fighting with the British Second Army at Wittenburg...
...Japan had never existed, the events of last week in Europe would have marked the end of the greatest war in human history. The fact that this war was only part of a still greater war could not diminish its epic size, its overwhelming agony, or its pervasive consequences...
Senator Happy Chandler, newly-crowned czar of baseball, crept out on a limb for this epic struggle by declaring. "This great game will undoubtedly the greatest of all the when it returns by the forefront to proclaim its possibility of ability. I firmly believe that baseball can played in several episodes which must...
...time after graduation, Gould earned his living by reviewing books. "Now," he says, "book reviewing is done by machines," and he considers himself a victim of technological unemployment. For many years he has devoted himself to the epic "Oral History," which he describes as a compendium, seemingly endless, of everything he has seen himself or been told first-hand in all parts of the world...
From the U.S. First Army, fighting towards Cologne last week, came what one correspondent called "a minor epic" of the war. It concerned the building of a bridge. A small column of 8th Division infantry had a fingerhold across the Erft Canal. Ahead of them, the Germans were gathering tanks for a counterattack. Behind them, U.S. combat engineers were building the bridge, to bring up armor to support the infantry...