Word: graveses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Overseas Graves
Adoption is the order of the day. Ruined towns are being adopted by those less damaged, villages by cities, cities by provinces, small countries by larger and richer ones. And the latest idea is the adoption of soldiers graves by people in the areas where they exist. . . .
Father and mother lived on in Berlin after Allied troops arrived. As winter approached, Karl cut wood and his wife cleaned bricks. Their one room on Dan-zigerstrasse had no windowpanes. One morning last week, as freezing winds and snow swept Berlin, the Neumanns could not force themselves to get...
To Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz, who with brashness matching Doolittle's had claimed that sea power "ultimately compelled the Japs to ask for peace," Doolittle had an angry rejoinder: "The B-29 boys are probably resting uneasily in their graves as a result of those statements."
The search for the site of man's first civilized home narrowed down last week. The Iraq Government proudly claimed the oldest agricultural village in the world, recently discovered (see map). Its ruins, presumably about 8,000 years old, lay near Hassuna, about 250 miles from Baghdad. The mud...