Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Manus was a red, shell-pocked beach, backed by impenetrable jungles and a shouldering mountain. The Seabees carried with them every item they needed-from aerial photographs and bulldozers to $15,000,000 in currency for the payroll and 50,000 cases of beer. On May 1 they went to work...
...latently hopeful man he is. In battle his hatred for MPs has softened, because MPs also die. His enthusiasm for undermining the "officer system" has waned. He studiously avoids talk of fear and death. He knows that his only reward for pushing the enemy back over one cold, rocky mountain is a chance to push him over the next...
...mornings. Aslito airfield, "the primary objective," was taken by our regiment after the Marines had twice tried in vain. Other units of the division had the job of taking Mount Tapotchau while the Marines took both flanks and a great deal of the lower ground that flanked the mountain...
...team will be the Foreign Economic Administration. Last week Oscar Cox, FEA's general counsel, was still studying a letter drafted in the White House. The letter, from Mr. Roosevelt to FEA's boss. Leo Crowley, outlined the postwar duties of FEA. Cox, 38, whose hobby is mountain climbing, has a nimble and imaginative legally trained mind (M.I.T. and Yale Law School), which enables him to have a finger in every Washington pie. He wrote the first draft of the Lend-Lease bill in 20 minutes, then filled in the details in two and a half hours. Last...
...drape of his chalk-stripe suit were sharp. So were his departments: practical and applied psychology, chemical psychotherapy, hypnotic childbirth, advanced esoterics and metaphysics, and reflex therapy (dandy for baldness). Students of "prenatal suggestion" were advised: "When a couple decides to have children, they should go to a mountain resort where they can romp in the grass and eat green vegetables." The college claimed 4,000 alumni...