Word: freshing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reports from Chungking indicated that the Japs took the threats seriously: fresh troops moved into the Arakan district on the Bay of Bengal; supplies poured into the Salween front on the Burma-China border...
...declared the Food group, "when fresh tomatoes are served, as in salads, the students are allowed only two or three slices," merely because this is a regulation...
Italy must in part be fed, although if the war moves quickly off Italian soil, and if enough of her demobilized soldiers return to the farms, Italy could be 95% self-sufficient in food. Normally producing a surplus of fresh fruits and vegetables, Italy is dependent on imports for meat, eggs, coffee, oats, corn and wheat. Her wheat supply has in recent years been stepped up by the successful reclamation of the Pontine Marshes, but her estimated annual wheat supply of 7,000,000 tons is still less than 90% of her rock-bottom requirements...
...this angry gesture the Germans found time. They also found time to sow mines with a generous hand. Cautious Red sappers, one Soviet Union officer reported, gingerly disconnected booby traps from chimney pots, sacks of potatoes, haystacks, fresh loaves of bread-even from crying infants. But the mines did not delay the Red Army long, and the Germans had to abandon many of their supply dumps. Food and ammunition by the trainload fell into Russian hands. On a single airfield in the south the Reds captured 19 undamaged planes. Near Bryansk, they seized land mines stacked in Teutonically neat mounds...
...white men; now it has a holding force of blissfully happy U.S. troops. Venereal disease is unknown among the natives; the major commanding the force saw to it that only healthy soldiers went ashore. Life is pleasant, with plenty of tropical fruits and vegetables; wild pigs occasionally provide fresh meat. Love is taboo until after sundown, then the unattached girls doff their tapa-cloth shirts, shake out their grass skirts and smile fondly about them...