Word: midstreamers
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...crisis line could be taken as a tip that Harry Truman is also ready for dirty weather, prepared to treat 1948 as a short-of-war year, a time to face up to the threat of World War III and no time to change White House horses in midstream...
...international bridge, the muddy Rio Uruguay raced in flood. But on the bridge Argentine troopers and Brazilian marines stood at immaculate attention. A strapping figure in the uniform of an Argentine general, and a tired little man in a dark civilian suit advanced toward each other. At midstream the two men snipped a ceremonial tape, then embraced. Thus, last week, after many postponements, Argentina's President Juan Perón and Brazil's President Caspar Eurico Dutra inaugurated the Augustin Justo bridge that links their countries...
...only man who had ever taken a steamboat well up the Yellowstone River. Marsh ran the 400-ton Far West up the Yellowstone to the Big Horn River, then up to the Little Big Horn. There the Far West tied for safety's sake to an island in midstream rather than the shore, for Crazy Horse and his Sioux were known to be somewhere around. The 7th U.S. Cavalry drew fresh supplies from the hold of the Far West, galloped off under command of a dashing, handsome 37-year-old brevet major general who wore a flowing...
...Year is Harry S. Truman, who changed horses in midstream and most successfully...
Allied war aims in Italy were to knock the Italians out of the war and then get the Germans out of Italy. In midstream these aims were changed. Now the purpose is to draw as many German divisions into Italy as possible, hold them there to prevent their use on other fronts. Unfortunately, the Allies have never had enough troops to complete the job ("at no time in the Italian campaign have the Allies had any but slight superiority in numbers") and the Germans have been clever at getting out of traps. Nevertheless the Germans have lost almost...