Word: huges
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...joined a battalion moving up for the first attack at dawn. We turned left at the first intersection and passed three huge silhouettes by the roadside. "Tanks. That's good. As long as they stay away from our doughfoots," someone muttered...
...position was untenable. Retreat was ordered. Some swam across the Rapido. Others formed human chains. A sergeant tied wire to a pick, and hurled the pick across the river until it stuck behind a rock. Seven men then pulled themselves across. All the equipment was left behind. A huge German Tommy gunner on the bank shouted: "Hey, Yank, don't you want to surrender?" But he did not fire...
...plane from Berlin arrived-an American-made DC-3, with "Sweden-Schweden" painted in huge letters on both sides. A dozen grave-faced Germans emerged. Out-prioritied, I resigned myself to the night train. While waiting for a taxi I stood around and watched the Germans. Their clothes looked unpressed and faded but still good. Their faces were grim. I particularly noticed one grey gentleman. He had on a fine, fur-collared coat and new overshoes, a prewar and rather frowzy hat. He walked and spoke with dignity and authority, but his face looked haggard...
...Forest. A little fleet of cars took the party ten miles out the Vitebsk road to Goat Hill, overlooking the Dnieper. A light snow was falling on the slender, leaning birches, the bare oaks, the tall evergreens and the huge mounds of frozen sand with the black boots sticking out. Kathy and her companions stumbled over the rough ground, past pits the size of tennis courts, to where Dr. Victor Prozorovsky, senior medical expert of the Atrocities Commission, stood on a freshly turned heap of red sand. He was directing Red Army men as they hacked out frozen, mildewed Polish...
...will not do it. The Army must convince U.S. workers that the tractor, while not as glamorous as a P-47, is even more essential in many areas. Sorest pressed is the South Pacific, where each island hop forward means not only virtual abandonment of rear bases, but a huge new construction job. In effect, the U.S. will cross the Pacific at the speed of a tractor...