Word: hiked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lives for the time being in a tent in the jungle with a neat little sand path running to the tents of the other fliers. His only amusements are bull sessions and an occasional hike to the tiny plantation store miles away. But he's fit as a fiddle-and all Navy. He wanted to know about everything at the office, who's writing what, how's everybody...
Probably the Harvard Regiment, faced with the prospect of drilling all summer under seasoned and exacting American and French officers, could just barely groan once more when the Military Office in Weld 3 informed the students that the Regiment would take "a long hike of 250 miles during the month of July 16 to August 15." Already by June jubilant headlines in the CRIMSON heralded the long awaited arrival of machine guns for training purposes: "Third Machine Gun Here... Lecture on First Aid... Collection To Be Taken For Ammunition...
...railroads expect to hike their oil deliveries to the rationed East Coast another big notch this week to more than 800,000 barrels a day. Before fall they hope to cross the 1,000,000-barrel mark. That would mean rolling each of 62,000-odd tank cars close to 500 miles a day, far faster than the railroads ever highballed freight before...
Last week, four months later, Hollywood at last got its marching orders. They called for little more than a short hike. For Government account, the industry will make 26 shorts on war subjects provided by Mellett. Having set a man to do a boy's work, Mellett returned to Washington...
...faces-native Mexican mountain faces: strong-nosed, squash-nosed, distrustful, lucent and, except for the children, lined by labor. Its actors (all natives) are natural and astonishingly good, especially a mop-haired little boy (Paco), who dies of dysentery, and his older brother (Juan Diego), who makes the long hike to the city to return with the "horse-blood men"-Mexico's rural medicos and their vaccine...