Word: mined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...defense" fathered by Field Marshal Heinz Guderian, eastern front commander, now fully restored to Adolf Hitler's fitful favor. Already emplaced in whole provinces, enormous masses of movable concrete bunkers of eight to 15 tons, called "scorpions," formed "tank landscapes." Before them were six or eight zones of mine blockades including contact mines of glass, controlled mines fired by wire or radio. Enthroned in this system sat infantrymen with antitank rockets and guns...
Washington's Latin American circles were abuzz with an acid anecdote last week. A Peruvian surgeon and a Venezuelan architect (so the story ran) were dining with two men from the U.S. State Department. They discussed whose profession was the oldest. "Mine," said the surgeon, "God created Eve out of Adam's rib . . . by a surgical operation." "Mine," said the architect, "God first created the world out of chaos . . . the work of an architect." The two State Department men kept mum. "And what do you say?" the Latin Americans finally asked. Said one of the State Department...
...TIME (Oct. 2) appears a reference and a picture of George Catlin, painter, writer, and authority on the American Indian. George Catlin was a great-great-uncle of mine. One particularly delightful anecdote which has come down in the family concerns a feast given to a visitor, a friend of Catlin's. As the assemblage sat on the ground, a squaw passed behind the tenderfoot and whispered hospitably, "Dig deep, white man; puppy in bottom...
YOUR KIDS AND MINE - Joe E. Brown - Doubleday, Doran...
...Their carrier task force moved south to the New Guinea theater and struck Hollandia, moved north east for strikes at Truk, Satawan and Ponape. Still the Rippers were no better than any mine-run fighter squadron. In early June the task force went north to lend a hand in the invasion of the Marianas. There the squadron found itself...