Word: lies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...valuable of the main airfields were five which the U.S. built in subarctic Canada to ferry short-range aircraft direct to Europe. They are located at The Pas (in Manitoba), Churchill (on Hudson Bay), Southampton Island, Fort Chimo (near Ungava Bay) and Baffin Island's Frobisher Bay. They lie far north of what is likely to be the real northeast gateway to Europe: the great base at Goose Bay on Labrador's Hamilton Inlet. To bring Goose within easier reach of the continental U.S., the U.S. Army built a base at Mingan, Quebec, which increased the pay load...
...Allied Commander General Sir Harold R. L. G. Alexander might regroup, force the Arno as he did the Rapido. There would still lie ahead the mountains and pillboxes of the Gothic Line...
...Often I wonder if the people back home in America, thirsting for headlines of captured towns, realize how many Americans lie newly dead in these Normandy fields: men who have died to win a few yards of hedgerow...
...Some estimates have placed Britain's possible annual trade deficit immediately after the war at $5,000 million. France, immediately after World War I, had a deficit of about $2,000 million a year.) Thus the Fund will not permit nations to lie back and rely on borrowings from the Fund, Each will have to put its affairs in order, must get out and hustle...
...Salmon in public, whereupon Salmon would draw himself up: "Sir, I don't like to be made fun of!" During the rest pauses, super-active Randolph would think up various picnic pleasures, such as constructing a nice bivouac when all we wanted was to be left alone and lie in the grass. He never fussed about the cold, hunger, thirst, sore feet or German bullets, and only raised hell when the Partisan barber wanted to give him a shave without hot water. He smoked what the rest of us did, and the Russian general and I rolled cigarets...