Word: maining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sunday, a year later, U.S. paratroopers tumbled from transports above Nijmegen. In three days, aided by the Dutch student underground, the 82nd Airborne Division captured intact Nijmegen Bridge-"Gateway to The Netherlands." In the fighting, most of the university was reduced to rubble; the retreating Germans deliberately fired the main building and shelled the library for 68 hours. When the 82nd went home in victory, wearing the orange lanyard of the Military Order of William, 800 paratroopers stayed behind, buried in Dutch soil...
Elgin's ministers decided to go ahead with their pamphlet, called it "When Death Comes." Its main points...
...Truman, in a burst of feeling for a free economy, had denounced controls as marks of a police state, but near year's end he pleaded for authority to clap them on again. He cried: "It is far too late in the fight against inflation to place our main reliance" on businessmen. Had U.S. industry failed...
...column signed "Will Westward" for a Raintree County weekly paper. He fell in love with a beautiful girl named Nell. Among his friends were Cassius P. ("Cash") Carney, a boy with business sense, and Garwood Jones, a robust, youthful politician with a shrewd eye for the girls and the main chance. Garwood Jones and Johnny Shawnessy were rivals for Nell, but Garwood would never have won out if Johnny had not been tempted away by a predatory beauty from Louisiana named Susanna Drake...
...Crimson Freshmen's main forward attack of Jack Carman, Joe Kittredge, and Anderson was reunited for the first time since before the Christmas vacation...