Word: labyrinths
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...joys: "You won't soon forget dawn high above the glacial labyrinth of crevasses; nor the ... gleam of sunrise flaming into a golden glow; nor the mist spiraling down fast like shreds of lace...
...know about it. One G-2 agent (Regis Toomey) helps out by impersonating a crooked Canal Zone sergeant who hands Tracy a complete set of obsolete plans; another (Nancy Kelly) saves Tracy's life at the cost of her own. These and other complications wind through a labyrinth of hidden dictaphones, hideous tortures, sinister slant eyes, vicious voices...
...West Wall is formidable enough in dragon-toothed antitank traps, in a multiplicity of small cross-firing forts, in a checkered labyrinth of woods and blockhouses, in roads dead-ended at gun range. But it is not designed to stop an enemy in his tracks. It is designed to exhaust an enemy who breaks into it, so that fresh reserves, using the classic Prussian defense by counterattack, can rush in and hurl him back...
Yenan, the capital (pop. 25,000), is a city of caves cut in tiers in the loess slopes. One of its cave hospitals has eight stories. Its university (enrollment: 2,000) is a labyrinth of classrooms and dormitories...
...Army to continue working for their degrees, and in giving every soldier the opportunity to obtain an education while working in an otherwise perhaps humdrum job, tall, lanky, pragmatic, brilliant, New Englander Spaulding is doing one of the most significant jobs of anyone in Washington's Pentagon labyrinth...