Word: outer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germans had dug elaborate trench systems in and around the villages, where ordinary-looking houses covered 5-ft. concrete outer walls, 2-ft. partitions, deep cellars. Sometimes, when the trenches were under U.S. shell fire, the Germans ran into the cellars, then back into the trenches when the firing stopped. The Yanks had to clean out every village with bayonets and grenades...
...bamboo grille. From the back room came the steady tap-tap-tap of an illegal wireless transmitter, planted there by some amiable Chinese guerrillas. Emily's other friends included fabulously rich Sir Victor Sassoon (he gave Emily a snappy Chevrolet coupé), the gouty Living Buddha of Outer Mongolia ("I have nothing to do all day," he said fretfully, "but chant. . . ."), an Australian brunette named Jean (she worked in Mrs. "Buffalo" San's so-called "massage" establishment), green-trousered Dr. Chu, author of A Study of the Vaginal Vibrations of the Female Rabbit and later Puppet Wang Ching...
Persian Rugs. As Lieut. General George S. Patton's infantry closed on Metz from the north, west and south, the outer string of forts put up only feeble resistance, sometimes none at all. Some had no weapons bigger than machine guns, and some seemed to be used chiefly for living quarters. The German commandant of Fort Verny had installed Persian rugs, Louis XV chairs, Oriental lacquered tables. He was captured behind the fort, wandering dazedly about in search...
...east were in range of Patton's Long Toms. His pincers closing east of Metz were only nine miles apart. Then the guns of Metz itself opened up on the attackers for the first time in six days. Nevertheless the Yanks took three of the small outer forts...
...Infections. Local, treatment with penicillin solutions can cure abscesses in the ear's outer canal. Penicillin injections have even saved the necessity of mastoid operations...