Word: oxcart
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Yokohama, Japan's greatest seaport, rusted under blockade, with whole streets deserted, warehouses and offices closed. Gasoline was no longer available to civilians; travelers' luggage was hauled from Yokohama to Tokyo by bicycle and oxcart...
...cartridges during the retreat. The retreat was no rout. It was a desperate withdrawal across Albania, in which a few thousand men held Babuna Pass for several days against 35,000 Bulgarian attackers, in which King Peter I, old and sick, escaped through snow and mountains in an oxcart, and from which 125,000 out of 385,000 managed to get to Corfu, where they threw off the typhus, pulled themselves together, and promptly went off to Salonika to fight some more...