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Word: mud (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...determined action and tense faces of the men themselves, how the Eighth Army halted its retreat, "dug in" to hold off Field Marshal Rommel, and knocked his "invincible" strategy into a cocked hat by breaking through the German panzer wall and advancing some 1400 miles through desert dust and mud...

Author: By F. W. E., | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 4/26/1943 | See Source »

...Indian troops were in slow, steady retreat last week before the jujitsu jabs of the Japs, who infiltrated their positions and threatened to cut their thin communication line. The British would probably be lucky if they could withdraw intact to India before the imminent season of monsoon, malaria and mud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF ASIA: Postponed Decision | 4/19/1943 | See Source »

...things like that. Maybe the W. and R. Officer could find out about it. Congrats to Jay Gates on the successful campaign for Big A1 ... the slogan which carried all wards and precincts in Platoon Three was a pip--"March Smartly With Big A1 Hartley" ... "Keep out of the Mud with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BAKER'S DOZEN | 4/9/1943 | See Source »

Want to hear a fairly accurate reproduction of a cow walking in wet mud? Follow Don Jackson some night

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Flotsam and Jetsam of Company B | 4/9/1943 | See Source »

There was mud in Russia, and typhus and a fear that the Germans, thrown back in the winter, would return on the dry fields of summer. Again the Russians hoped for a second front...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Spring Always Comes | 4/5/1943 | See Source »

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