Word: mud
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...suburbs of Naha. In the center the 1st Marine and 77th Army Divisions pressed closer to Shuri. On the east coast the 96th Army Division captured Conical Hill dominating the Yonabaru airstrip; then doughboys swept ahead to take the airfield itself. Again & again the Japanese came out of mud-filled foxholes and caves to counterattack...
...have been shouted down by this character Gertrude Stein in Paris [TIME, April 16], but I shall not be! Who is she that she can criticize our Army for not being "gay" after they have been torn from their homes and friends, spent years in training and months in mud and dirt of foreign lands liberating a French people who were too decadent a nation to do their own fighting...
...stood as a monument to the enormous sufferings and the monumental resolution of the Red Army, and imperturbable Marshal Zhukov had been the chief instrument of that Army's victory. Up from the darkest days before Moscow, up from the bloody pit of Stalingrad and the snows and mud and dust of the Ukraine and Poland, he now stood before Berlin as one of the truly great military leaders of World...
...conquest of castles became commonplace. In her 300-room castle at Nordkirchen, Princess Valerie-Marie of Schleswig-Holstein, great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria, ran her fingers through marcelled hair at the sight of bearded G.I.s tracking mud on her carpets. When she was confined to 14 gilded chambers, she wrung her hands and protested: "It's absurd, this tiny wing...
...boast about: a phenomenally durable map paper. It can be folded & refolded 3,540 times in one place before it will tear. Sample maps were tossed with dirty clothes into a G.I. laundry, washed, dried, wet again. Then they were tacked to a floor, trampled, slathered with mud, grease, paint and gasoline. They came out clear and usable. A little vexed by such inanimate obstinacy, a testing engineer put a match to one map, reported happily: "Map burns easily...