Word: neck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With 700 yards still to go they had to scurry over the side of the boat into water that was neck deep, with five or six machine guns concentrating on them. "I don't know when it was that I realized I wasn't frightened any longer. Perhaps it was when I noticed the bullets were hitting six inches to the right or six inches to the left. I remember laughing inside and saying: 'You , you certainly are lousy shots.' That, as I told Colonel Carlson the next day, is what I now call my hysteria...
Then the boat boss said: ";From here on you can walk in" The men in the boat, about 15 in all, slipped into neck-deep water...
...dawn of the counterinvasion's third day the Germans crept into Alinda Bay. With the aid of paratroopers they occupied the narrow neck of land where the sea almost cuts the island in two. The British counterattacked. For a while they seemed to be gaining. So, at 4 p.m. of the fifth day, said the Leros radio, with a British upper lip. At 5 p.m. it went off the air. Leros had fallen. The defenders were captured or escaped to Samos, where the Germans shortly announced fresh attacks to root out the last British force in the Aegean. This...
...After a few seconds the gun ceased firing, loud yelling could be heard and one of the crew came running from the hut with Chips tearing at his neck. . . . Chips's courageous act, singlehandedly [sic] eliminating a dangerous machine-gun nest . . . reflects the highest credit on himself and the military service...
Died. Colonel Van Santvoord Merle-Smith, 54, until last August General Douglas MacArthur's Executive Intelligence Officer, peacetime yacht-skippering investment banker; three months after a breakdown induced by heavy South Pacific staff work; in Cove Neck, N.Y. Princeton '11, Harvard Law School '14, he won the D.S.C. as a World War I captain (later he was a major) of the 165th Infantry...