Word: milford
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hour after the landing, Fireman First Class Aurelio Tassone of Milford, Mass. was roaring along on his 20-ton 'dozer when he spotted an enemy strongpoint. Skirting the coconut-logged bunker, he came at it from the rear. Bullets banged off the big blade which he had raised as a shield. The tractor rolled on like its armored offspring, the tank...
CHARLES BEARD New Milford, Conn...
...biographies of the Founding Fathers, and one of the main bases of the economic and political beliefs of the liberals of the 1920s, out of which grew the pragmatic liberalism of the New Deal. Now, at 68, a white-haired, rugged-featured Yankee living on a farm near New Milford, Conn., he is the dean of American liberal thinkers...
...quiet Jersey hamlet of West Milford last week, a small-town rumpus took on a national significance. The First Presbyterian Church (membership: 176) decided that the symbol of the church takes precedence over the symbol of the state. Despite the vigorous objections of Police Chief Somers Stites, the Presbyterians kept the Christian flag to the pastor's right and the Stars & Stripes to his left in their little white clapboard church...
...residents of West Milford, N.J. (plus some 10,000 summer visitors) will be without a doctor soon. Last week the town's only practicing physician, Dr. Harold C. Geiger, father of three, was called up by the Army Medical Corps. Dr. Norman Scott, secretary of the Newark office of the Army Procurement and Assignment Service, agreed with the worried townsfolk that the Army faced a "moral obligation" to replace the departing doctor or to arrange calls from doctors in other towns. But he warned: "West Milford is an example of what is going to happen in a great many...