Word: intact
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there were other tasks that might have been tackled back of the 50-mile sector through which Rundstedt struck. There bridges were intact, roads were unharmed. A rail line operated from the Rhine nearly to the Allied line opposite Trier...
...Argentan pincers of last summer. Could the Germans get out? It was well to remember that last summer, when the Wehrmacht was less ably commanded than it is now, the Germans who had seemed hopelessly bottled in the Falaise trap were able to extricate five divisions of armor almost intact. If Rundstedt was content with the delay and damage already wrought against his foes in the west, he might be able to pull back to the West Wall without serious loss...
After five years of Italian and German occupation, Tirana, the Albanian capital, was mostly intact, though the retreating Germans had wrecked the British Legation. From the U.S. Legation, they took only the caretaker's guitar...
...stops, feet turn white and numb, sudden warming causes painful burning. The devitalized tissues may recover if kept cool and dry for a few days or weeks. But in some cases blisters develop and become infected, even cause gangrene, amputation or death. Many victims who emerge with feet intact can never fight again because their feet ache on long hikes and are very sensitive to cold...
Flying the lonely reaches of the Aleutians, U.S. airmen often have to do some fast, original thinking to get home intact...