Word: gravell
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...roads led to Rome last week, and the Romans used them, lickety-split. Along a rock-&-gravel supply highway which Marshal Rodolfo Graziani had just completed from Sidi Barrani back to bases in Libya, Italy's Army of the stagnant Egyptian invasion ran for its life. Along an Albanian road hugging the cliffs spectacularly from Porto Edda to Valona, built by the Italians during the last war and subject of great engineering pride with them, Italy's Army of the reversible Greek invasion made further headway backwards. The Italians were so completely on the run that Adolf Hitler...
...diners the reporters drank thousands of whiskeys-&-sodas, gloomed over the candidate's daily mistakes, over Willkie's inability to get political, mourned the low quality of cocktails on trains, wrote millions of words, ran endlessly back to the rear platform over gravel and cinders to observe the crowds, rode for hours in cars through cities that looked almost the same, sat listening while Willkie hammered away at his message, his voice hoarse with urgency as well as weariness: "Only the strong can be free and only the productive can be strong." Reporters got so they could chime...
Willys, which has had more ups & downs in recent years than any other car, got patriotic, named its '41s "Americar," dropped the once-famed "Overland" name altogether. Four cylinders turn out 63 h.p., wheel base is two inches longer and every car has a gravel shield at the rear end. Prices...
Methods for using home materials, such as pipe, tin cans, bolts and gravel, in manufacturing bombs were demonstrated and instruction was given in sabotage nuisance tactics, such as putting sand and cinders in locomotive grease chambers to create hotboxes, vinegar or sugar in gasoline tanks to stall cars. One particular trick stressed in the school was stretching a thin wire across highways at a height of 4 ft. 3 in. to decapitate enemy motorcyclists. Lest a rider detect the wire, volunteers were told to place a dummy at the side of the road to distract his attention at the crucial...
There was John Fiske, who knew all the sciences and half-a-dozen languages before he entered Harvard where he added Hebrew, Sanskrit, Gothic, Icelandic, Rumanian, Dutch. "His methodical, orderly mind moved like a stone-crusher, reducing the boulders of thought to a flow of gravel that anyone could build a mental road with." Evolution was his religion. There was Francis Parkman, who had been over the Oregon Trail. Life in the West had destroyed his digestion and given him chronic insomnia. Arthritis crippled him. A nervous disorder "engulfed his mind." He had published The Conspiracy of Pontiac...