Word: garden
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Montgomery's game plan was sort of quantum leapfrog. On Sept. 17, 1944, a Sunday, the afternoon skies over Holland were filled with 5,000 planes and 2,500 gliders. Executing phase one of Operation Market-Garden, an airborne Allied army of 35,000, complete with vehicles and artillery, dropped onto Dutch countryside still occupied by Germans...
...road connecting them) until Monty's Second Army had blitzed across the last bridge at Arnhem, which spanned the Lower Rhine, and driven into Germany. All the bridges except the one at Arnhem were swiftly captured. But a week and a day after it began, Operation Market-Garden phased into a withdrawal, ironically coded Operation Berlin. By then the Allies had lost 17,000 troops, or 1% times the casualties of the Normandy invasion. "The most momentous airborne offensive ever conceived" also turned out to be-in the words of Cornelius Ryan, "one of the greatest miscalculations...
Later, Kafka compares the Italians flocking to the 1909 air show to tartar tribes invading an English garden party. What is most interesting about the story is that it was taken in part from original accounts by Kafka and Brod. One wonders whether it was Kafka, Brod, or Davenport who wrote this sentence...
...construction of Canaday Hall means that Claverly Hall, which was used to house freshmen last year, is now free to house upperclassmen. Upperclassmen living in Claverly will be affiliated with one of the River Houses, just as residents of the Continental on Garden St. are associated with one of the Quad Houses...
...avoid an upset in the economic diversity of the incoming Radcliffe classes, he pledged additional funds for scholarships for Radcliffe students. And to alleviate the impending housing shortage, the University bought the Hotel Continental on Garden Street near the Quadrangle and embarked on a campaign for donations for a new dormitory (which eventually led to the building of Canaday Hall...