Word: highway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...foci and two aims. Beachheads were established at Kota Bahru, in the extreme northeast, and at Kuantan, about 200 miles north of Singapore. These two places are the keys to east coast transportation, Kota Bahru being the only rail-sea junction along the whole coast, Kuantan the only highway-sea junction, except in the extreme south...
Correction. In Leupp, Ariz., Yazzie Greymountain scotched reports of his death, in a letter to the Highway Patrol: "Yazzie Greymountain is me who is not dead. If I was a dead accident then I couldn't write you this letter, could I? That's right. . . . I am 100% live Navajo Indian. . . . I have one wife which is called Tonlin Barton Greymountain just like my name. It makes Tonlin cry when she reads that I am a dead accident. . . . My leg is broke and there are bumps on my head but I am alive and not a dead accident...
...Axis road to which the besieged garrison of Tobruk hoped to cut its way was the supply highway the enemy had built during the summer to by-pass Tobruk. Along the path of this projected drive lay four enemy strongholds, nicknamed by Empire forces: Butch, Jack, Jill and Tiger...
Enveloping Moves. In the first phase of battle the British sent columns shoot ing into the desert to isolate the various Axis cantonments and fortresses. Each column had as its objective certain vital highways and desert tracks. Three of them had as their eventual rendezvous a key point on the biggest Axis highway, Sidi Rezegh. The fourth (mechanized New Zealanders) cut north behind Axis forts on the Egyptian border, isolating them from the rear; then split and hurried along the coast, isolating coastal strongholds like Bardia and Gambut. In that operation the Fleet assisted. With control of land highways, with...
...supernumeraries in this novel include a 300-year-old tree trunk which shatters transcontinental telephone connections, an owl whose electrocution weakens a wire, a boar whose drowning plugs a culvert and washes ballast from a canyon railroad track, a young telephone linesman, a power dispatcher, a highway superintendent for the Donner Pass section of U.S. 40, a junior meteorologist, a plane pilot, the flangers-and the dangerous steam rotaries which clear the railroad lines of snow, a dam superintendent, the men who handle the highway plows . . . men, beasts and things, in short, infinitesimally at work against the enormous collusions...