Word: motoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Still Got a Motor." The survivors have no water, no food, no energy, no destination, no prospect but death. "When we killed the German," they say, "we killed our motor." Says religious Negro Joe (Canada Lee): "We still got a motor." He means...
...abruptly finished them off. Other write-offs: the Foreign Office, Treasury Office, Gestapo Headquarters, Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler's official residence, Home Office, Army Records Office, Ministry of Armaments & Munitions, Ministry of Education. Severely damaged factories read like a Berlin industrial directory: Siemens, A.E.G., Dornier, Rheinmetall-Borsig, Alkett Motor, B.M.W., Schering...
There is scarcely any food now and disease hovers on the brink of their other disasters. Some of Romanoglio's people have gone; they went to the safer south, trudging along the roads, carrying their mattresses on their heads, pushing baby carriages, cringing into the roadsides as great motor convoys passed. They were part of the 25,000 women and children who were directed by AMG to evacuate from towns in the path of war. Those of Romanoglio's people who remained are putting bricks into the shell holes of their homes, burying their dead, squealing and screaming...
Rapport. In Johnson City, Tenn., police found an empty auto standing at a red light with its motor running. They ultimately learned the answer: the driver and his wife, he bound for work, she for a shopping trip, both in a hurry, had simultaneously dashed from the car by opposite doors, each sure the other had stayed to drive...
...Chinese, trained and equipped by Americans in India, carried the heaviest burden in this opening phase of the continental offensive. In the tortuous jungle country before them, supply was the key to military success. The Jap relied on broad rivers, motor roads and elephant trails leading from his main Burma bases to the northern front. Against his communications Allied planes hammered steadily all week. But the Chinese columns, commanded by Lieut. General Sun Li-jen (pronounced soon lee-run), a V.M.I, graduate, and hardboiled, aggressive U.S. Brigadier General Haydon Boatner, were venturing into an almost trackless wilderness. To avoid backbreaking...