Word: monte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Revolutionist. In Great Falls, Mont., the police reported the arrest of a man fast asleep in a revolving door...
Last week from London's War Office came a new story of one of those old regiments. The place: Mont Pinçon, highest tor in Normandy, strongly held by the Germans. The time: four days after Minden Day, 1944. A British battalion had bogged down at a small stream footing the mount. Small groups tried to rush the bridge. Each time they were mowed down. The battalion's lieutenant colonel was 30-year-old John Child Pearson of Blundellsland (near Liverpool), who sported the wide mustache that Sandhurst's young graduates affect. Somewhere he found...
...Mont. 57 4 Idaho...
Solid Food. In Big Sandy, Mont., A. H. Olson appeared with a dead rattle snake and a story. The snake, he explained, swallowed a mouse. Then the mouse killed the snake by biting a hole in its throat...
...swept past Mont-Saint-Michel last week, but some enraptured U.S. troops stopped to stare. A half century ago another U.S. visitor, Henry Adams, saw the same towering, church-crowned rock in the sea off Avranches, felt the same compulsion. Wrote he in Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres...