Word: mires
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...track claimed many of our company 4 notables-purely for the purpose of watching. . . . Speaking of the track, diminutive Roland Sink ticked of a 4:25 mile over a mire-laden track to cloud James Rafferty, ex N. Y. U. sensation, and turn in the top performance of the day in that event. The win, a full five seconds under the best IC-4A time, gives NSCS one of the three top collegiate milers in the country...
They knew, for example, that the trim little schoolhouse at Westkapelle was doomed. Its floor had become a black mire. Its desks were coated with oil and refuse left by the tide. Soon the whole building would crumble into the sea. But on its blackboard, beyond the water's reach, they had chalked three words: Wij zijn bevrijd-"We are liberated...
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...