Word: knoll
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With Mrs. Truman at his side, the President drove a Secret Service convertible coupe along the park's winding roads. Wearing a Panama hat and carrying binoculars, he studied the terrain from Big Round Top and a knoll overlooking the field across which Pickett's Virginians had made their charge. Said Artilleryman Truman: Pickett's men might have broken through with one more push. Then the son of Missouri Confederates added: We may all thank God that they didn't. That would have been the end of the Union...
...doors. It is not the sort of village in which people ordinarily run-its weathered shacks squat dismally in a muddy hill hollow amid slatternly fences, outhouses and discarded tires. The women and children straggled past the empty coalies on the Louisville & Nashville Railroad spur, and up a barren knoll to the tipple of the Belva Mine. Smoke and burned fragments of cardboard and paper were puffing hotly from the tunnel mouth...
...corridor north of the Moselle with one of the war's swiftest armor strokes. Behind their tanks the infantry mopped up thousands of prisoners from shredded German divisions. Among them was a befuddled German general. Out of touch with his troops, he had stood on a knoll looking for some sign of them. Finally his binoculars found a large batch of Germans. He hurried over to find that they-and he-were prisoners...
...slope to the grave stirred fallen leaves. Mrs. Willkie stood quietly beside her son, and her husband's brothers, Fred and big Ed Willkie. When the coffin was lowered she took one quick step toward the grave. Then, slowly, with the family group, she walked away down the knoll. The crowd left. Wendell Willkie, who had discovered that the world was one, was back home in Indiana...
...recording conversations with Marines: talk, constant nervous laughter and incoherence. "Sometimes you laugh, sometimes you're scared, run," says a Flatbush, Brooklyn, boy. "Are you scared?" asks Hays. "Well, I couldn't sleep." Says one Texas Marine, wounded by fire from undisclosed Japanese pillboxes on a knoll: "You just got to walk till you find them...