Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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LONDON--Martial law was declared tonight throughout the Savoie area of Eastern France, where French guerrillas entrenched in rugged mountain passes were holding out against Vichy, Italian and German regulars...
Supplies for the South. To sustain themselves the Allies have had to move supplies under heavy convoy across thousands of miles of ocean, and then over hundreds of miles of muddy mountain highways and desert trails...
...sort of chanting that the winds make to a cabin . . . evoked an appetite for the comfortable village noises that steal by night over a long quiet distance." Before dawn they found themselves off the coast of Norway, and "high above us, on the shelf of an incidental mountain, the lovely, unbelievable, almost-forgotten picture of a lit window . . . hung in the morning darkness. For two years we had not seen such a window." But while the men stared, enemy star shells burst in the sky and small boats carried the Commandos to the beaches. Destroyers of the Royal Navy escorted...
Ashore, the Commandos began the long, exhausting climb to the mountain top, beyond which lay the bridge they must destroy. Soon their cheeks were "streaked to the neck with charcoaled sweat, and the neck raw from chafing collar . . . the nostrils sore from running mucus. . . . There was pain in . . . the stooped shoulders straining downwards away from the pack . . . in the bent spine, in the small of the back. . . . Pain in the strung thighs, red pain in the chafed buttocks . . . in the gooseflesh skin of the thigh where a holster, or a knife in ihe trouser pocket, rubbed with the polish...
...Eliot G-11 ELI 0280 Mishara, D. '46, Eliot D-42 TRO 4711 Moffat, A. W. '46, Eliot C-12 TRO 0904 Moot, S. D. '46, Eliot L-32 TRO 6393 Morgan, M. H. '46, Eliot K-33 TRO 5492 Morris, I. I. '46, Dunster F-32 TRO 6725 Mountain, C. F. '46, Kirklnad M-42 KIR 1641 Mumford, M. W. '46, Lowell K-11 TRO 3704 N Neiley, R. G. '43, Leverett G-11 TRO 5114 Niles, A. A. '46, Winthrop J-42 TRO 1174 O Ofsthun, D. G. '46, Lowell C-34 KIR 2193 P Paul...