Word: lough
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...defenders on tactics, the games were intended to exercise the armies' logistical services: kitchens, ammunition details, supply corps, ambulance units. Actual battle conditions were feigned in every detail, right down to fifth columnists who lent boats to the invaders so that they might cross the huge inland lake, Lough Neagh, and, though seasick, encircle the bungling defenders...
...around Eire, Irish archeologists have peacefully dug into their country's prehistory. In 1934 some 30 excavation projects were set going by the Irish Government, to make work for laborers as well as to illuminate Eire's antiquity. Last week, with the 1940 season wound up at Lough Gur in County Limerick, word came from there that a continuous chain of human habitations had been traced back-through the Norman and Viking invasions, through the Bronze Age to the Stone Age-to the oldest known village site in Eire. It was dated...
Trophies at Lough Gur came from all ages: stone axes, flint weapons and tools, a bronze bracelet and bronze pins, bone combs, glass beads, hand mills for grinding grain, whetstones, Viking silver, and, according to the diggers, the finest ceremonial circle of druid stones in Eire. In charge were Professor Sean P. O'Riordain of Cork's University College and his assistant lecturer, Miss Caitriona MacLeod, a witty and personable young woman who speaks and dances Gaelic. A typical Stone Age house which they unearthed, 32 feet long by 18 wide, had walls of stone and wood...
Bronze Age pottery discovered at Lough Gur is the first direct evidence in Eire of the archeologically famed "Beaker people," so named for the drinking vessels which they buried with their dead. Some archeologists believe the tall, husky, brachycephalic (roundheaded) Beaker people came into Europe from the steppes of southern Russia, where burials resembling the Beaker graves have been found...
...distance from Belfast or Newcastle in Northern Ireland, where the R. N. and the R. A. F. may be at home, does not look so much greater out into the northern trade route than the distance from Lough Swilly, where R. N.'s nth Cruiser Squadron and the U. S. Navy's destroyers based in World War I. But it is 200 miles farther, out & back, and in wartime at sea every 100 miles counts. The distances from Berehaven and Cobh (Queenstown) in Eire to the southern trade lane (approach to Cardiff and Bristol as well...