Word: forested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enemy thrusts ran into British tanks, firing over hilltops, and high-velocity antitank guns, blasting from the hedgerows or forest edges. Heavier attacks were driven off by British artillery, which dumped shells like loads of coal onto the advancing Panzer formations. The Nazis could not crack the British positions. The enemy might delay Caen's fall; he could not prevent...
...doctor is small, husky Lieut. Amos Little of Marlboro, Mass., Dartmouth '39, Johns Hopkins Medical School '42, who began parachuting at the U.S. Forest Service Parachute School at Seelay Lake...
...soldier seriously wounded near Palermo rides five miles by bus every evening from the convalescent section at Forest Glen, Md. He has missed only two services. "I was out there, he says. "I was with them. The least I can do for them now is to pray for them...
...with full-length zippers are snatched out of the hands of delivery men. The Woman's Society of Winnetka's Congregational Church cleared $7,400 in a one-day sale, with more than 5,000 people scrabbling for old lamps, jewelry, and clothes hangers. In swank Lake Forest, upper-crust ladies clamor for silk evening gowns that can be converted to nightgowns...
Wild Boys. Third son of the fourth Earl of Caledon, Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander was born 52 years ago in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.* The family, Catholics in a predominantly Protestant region, lived in a rambling old stone house surrounded by a forest and park where fallow deer ran wild. Harold's father died when he was a baby, and he and his four brothers ran wild, too, returning to the house mostly for sleep...