Word: maze
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...left. MacArthur set about bringing his more than 20,000 Filipino regulars under U.S. command and prepared for the gradual incorporation of more than 125,-ooo Filipino reserves. Racing against time, MacArthur demanded, and began to receive, a sizable trickle from the spigot of U.S. production. Transports threaded the maze of the island waterways, bringing U.S. troops, planes, technicians, tanks. Out of the East, Flying Fortresses roared to secret concentrations within the islands...
...huge: it covers 117 square miles. It is a maze of irregularly traced, winding streets. It is remarkably self-sufficient. Its industry, 14% of all Russia's, is doing all it can for defense. Its water supply is so far safe: the great Uchinsk Reservoir, 16 miles north of the city, the older Mytischi mineral springs system, ten miles northeast, and the Rublievo river-water system, ten miles west, are all still out of the enemy's reach. Its sources of electrical power lie farther afield, but they are well scattered and, so far, only slightly hampered...
Dashiell Hammett has developed a novel technique for rounding out his mystery stories. Whenever he finds himself involved in a maze of plot difficulties, he blithely adds another character, whom nobody else in the story knows anything about, and proceeds merrily...
...until the third period were the invading Indians able to score; but then after two minutes and 40 seconds the powerful Big Green attack penetrated the Harvard backs and in a maze of confusion before the goal right inside Dick "Dizzy" Deane poured one past goalie Jack Penson...
While 2500 undergraduates are winding their way through the maze of registration this week, across the river in the Business School Uncle Sam's Naval Supply Corps School will enroll some 250 commissioned officers for a five-month course ending in March...