Word: mire
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Many Americans died in the mire along the Roer River. The others kept shoving slowly ahead. Immediate objectives were Jülich and Düren, the two main enemy strongholds on the Roer. At week's end the Ninth Army was clubbing its way into Jülich, and advance units of the First, having hurdled the Inde, were approaching...
...Jungle. Whatever was back of Yamashita's appointment, it was evident that U.S. forces faced a difficult task in cleaning up Leyte, an even tougher job in winning the rest of the Philippines. One day last week a 70-m.p.h. typhoon hit Leyte briefly and rain fell to mire the jungles nearly all week. Such weather inevitably favored the defenders. The U.S. drive on land slowed down to a walk after it had overrun about 50% of the northern half of Leyte. Ormoc, the key western port where the Japs landed and deployed in a ten-mile semicircle, could...
General Mark Clark's British-American Fifth Army put on its raincoats. Day after day, as the Yanks and Tommies sloshed northward from Naples, the sky drenched the earth. The flat, brown Campania, hard and powder-dusty a fortnight ago, softened into a mire. Rivers swelled, spilled into the meadows along their banks...
...First Lady was back at the White House, five minutes ahead of schedule. It had been an incredible performance, out-Eleanoring Eleanor. In 85 minutes she had covered six miles (through Washington's worst mire), visited seven hotels, made seven speeches...
...Russians get through it.' The Russian is some kind of swamp-human, that we must admit. He is no European. It is a bit more difficult for us to get ahead in that morass than it is for the people who were born for a life in that mire...