Word: humped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clue came from Belém, an oven-hot seaport on Brazil's hump. There, one day recently, the shanty-lined streets that lead to Belém's airport were abustle with activity. U.S. jeeps and command cars crowded around the field. The Brazilian police departed; Army guards took their place. Presently, from the North sky, a great transport streaked down. It remained on the field several hours refueling, then took off toward the sea. Usually passengers scurry to the airport building to escape the heat, to sip cafezinho (half black coffee, half Brazilian sugar...
...green mountains of the Cirenaican hump sudden torrential rains slowed his progress, but he pushed on. At Bengasi invasion-wise Bedouins in flapping sheets now snapped the British thumbs-up. He reorganized at El Aghéila, where German engineers had sown the dead with booby traps. He was off again, rolling under the Marble Arch on which was inscribed: "O beneficent sun, thou seest nothing greater than the City of Rome." At Wadi el Chebir wild camels and gazelles pranced across the dreary ditch-scarred land. At Wadi Zemzem the pilgrim drew himself...
...They are safely over the big fall hump of this year's freight traffic. They will roll up the dazzling total of 630 billion ton-miles this year-33%greater than last year, 89% more than...
CAIRO--The British Eighth Army, after hurtling across the Libyan hump in a one-day advance of 66 to 90 miles, converged on Benghazi today in pursuit of Axis armies reported digging in for a desperate stand at El Agheila, 140 miles to the southwest...
...wide front, British tanks and infantry yesterday pushed to within 70 miles of Benghazi, main Axis north African supply port east of Tripoli, a communiquo announced. The British were believed advancing on Peughazi from the east and northeast, one column following the coastal road around the Libyan hump and the other striking directly across the desert...