Word: hood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these were not the offensives worrying the Germans. Their spokesmen pointed northward, to the 40-mile stretch held by the Allies along the Roer where the guns of Lieut. Gen. William Hood Simpson's Ninth Army were already drumming a prelude to battles to come. Six new armored divisions, four new infantry divisions had suddenly appeared in this area, said the Nazi radio. The Allies, it added, were preparing for a smash across the Cologne plain to the Rhine...
...villagers, from family friends and old nursemaids, from medieval manuscripts and ancient collections, the Grimm brothers gleaned the vast leavings of literature that had been blown into medieval Germany over the centuries by the winds of Hindu mythology, Irish balladry, Gothic minstrelsy. But today Cinderella, Rapunzel, Red Riding Hood, Snow White, Tom Thumb, et al. have become so much a part of western folklore that the Brothers Grimm's labors in reviving them have been largely forgotten, watered-down, or vilified...
There were dozens of instances of friendliness: Ray Sato, a 27-year-old Nisei from Hood River, focal point of Oregon racial intolerance, received 30 reassuring letters from former neighbors when he decided to go home. When Bruce McGill, a wealthy Sierra Madre (Calif.) businessman, ran an anti-Japanese newspaper advertisement, he found himself virtually ostracized by other citizens, who promptly ran a second ad, welcoming evacuees...
...erase their names without cause, other than the accident of birth and race, reduces our honor rolls to an array of meaningless painted boards. To the American Legion Post of Hood, Ore., three hearty Bronx cheers! EVANGELINE S. McALLISTER (The Sage Hen) Bayard...
Every mile of road had its quota of trucks stopped for repairs, with mechanics under the chassis or the hood, and frigid passengers thawing themselves by the roadside with a fire of rice stubble. Some vehicles were parked for the evening with passengers and crew sleeping underneath for shelter against the wind. Others had broken down completely. They had been stripped bare of every useful article-tires, lamps, seats, even motors. Abandoned beside them lay cargoes of bombs and ammunition, shining and useless in the biting cold...