Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They opened up with a hail of machine-gun fire, shooting from cellars, from shell holes, from behind any pile of stone or debris. There was no way to discourage them except the classical infantry way: a personal bullet, a private grenade, an individual bayonet thrust...
...into the northern edge of town. They dug in. At dusk the order came : "Tanks will leave town. Infantry will stay." During the night more doughfoots moved in. The Germans counterattacked at dawn, were held and pushed back, then settled down to a fierce defense of every house, every pile of ruins...
...years of Fascism. Their food supplies are low. Typhus and a half-dozen other diseases follow in the wake of the Allied armies. And as the advance goes forward, more Italian cities are left in ruins, more civilians are killed, more are made homeless, more problems of rehabilitation pile...
...with admirable impartiality" the U.S. soldier also likes to laugh at his own misfortunes. If he should "stumble inadvertently into a pile of manure, he will be the first to tell about it, and will almost certainly enlarge the dimensions and aromas of the pile at each successive recounting." His humor is vulgar, loud and bawdy...
...Greece he and his staff arrived at a port where a destroyer was to meet them. The ship was nowhere in sight; the Germans were getting closer; the younger officers were pacing nervously. Someone ventured to ask what the General was going to do. Jumbo climbed atop a pile of baggage and settled himself in comfort. Said...