Word: mined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Probably your Chinese and your Turkish and your German are about like mine-but I thought you might be interested in seeing how some of these stories look...
...with the glasses!") to come up and recite. When the Government first tried to give toothbrushes away free, nobody would take them. But when Comino put on his show and squeaked that "No boy or girl who won't brush his teeth is a friend of mine," both children and adults lined up. The original Comino was created in 1933. Today several hundred Cominos are off to battle against Mexican illiteracy...
...pool with bazookas, grenades, bayonets, then wiped out the last resistance at the south end of the oval. The capture had cost more U.S. casualties than the taking of many a German village. Among the U.S. wounded was a sergeant who had had both legs blown off by a mine. To a major who came up to his stretcher, he mumbled weakly: "We took our objective, sir." The major wept...
...another soldier, whom I could hardly see in the murky light. We didn't speak for a second, then he said quietly and evenly: "Don't shoot." I replied: "It's O.K., pal -I haven't got a gun." "Well," he said, "here's mine-it's a Luger." I realized he was a German. I called the Jocks-and quickly...
...beaches of Leyte Gulf. On the grey sands, Krueger reviewed the force-including his son-in-law. Colonel Aubrey D. Smith, commanding the 306th Regiment. Said Father-in-Law Krueger: "I want every corporal to realize that he commands an army just as I do, except that mine is a bigger army." Then the men marched up the ramps of waiting LCIs...