Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...line was supposed to be defined by the Garigliano River on the west and the Sangro River on the east side of Italy. Between the two rivers the Germans were dug into formidable, tangled mountain positions. But the actions which took place last week, particularly in that central tangle, suggested that the "winter line" was more a journalistic phrase than a military reality...
Sample of the Tangle. Looking forward from a Fifth Army regimental O.P. (observation post), the men could see their problem ahead-mountain ridges converging to a bottleneck, and in the bottleneck two obstructions, a bare rocky spine and a round wooded knoll. These hills squeezed Highway No. 6 into a horseshoe before it could straighten out on its way to Cassino and Rome, 90 miles away. Infantrymen named the hills "Old Baldy" and "The Fat One," and got ready to take them...
...ucar (Sugar Loaf Mountain) is an outstanding Rio de Janeiro landmark...
...nine bloody weeks the Allies have inched slowly up Italy's shank, their progress slowed by mined roads, shattered bridges, fiercely resisting Germans in mountain emplacements. Last week the U.S. and British forces stepped up their attack, broke through the Germans' strongest barrier below Rome...
...Schumann then felt he had the formula for Table Mountain. He proposes to erect on the mountaintop two parallel fences of fine wire netting, a foot apart, with an electric potential of 50,000 to 100,000 volts between them. He thinks that these wire screens, about 150 ft. high and 9,000 ft. long, will precipitate from the cloud at least 31,000,000 gallons daily. Since the cloud is constantly renewed, winter & summer, he believes it would give Capetown a year-round water supply...