Word: pit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dust and ashes of death, Berlin stood as a monument to the enormous sufferings and the monumental resolution of the Red Army, and imperturbable Marshal Zhukov had been the chief instrument of that Army's victory. Up from the darkest days before Moscow, up from the bloody pit of Stalingrad and the snows and mud and dust of the Ukraine and Poland, he now stood before Berlin as one of the truly great military leaders of World...
...Nazi pit had yet been plumbed. Still ahead, near Munich, lay Dachau the unspeakable, on whose walls an inmate had once scribbled: "This is the camp where you enter by the door and leave by the chimney...
Like a sensitive plant growing in a bull pit, the U.S. paratroop platoon modestly expanded to a battalion, then to a provisional group...
...with a new permit to operate in Colombia. TACA de Colombia will be a TACA affiliate, owned 45% by the parent company and 55% by Colombians. Operating in the pack-mule fashion that made it in 1942 the world's No. 1 freight flyer, the Yerex airline will pit two Douglas DC-2½s (DC-2s with DC-3 wings, double doors and reinforced bottoms) and a twin-engine Beechcraft against Pan Am's deluxe equipment. If it needs more money and talent than it has, TACA can draw from big, rich Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc., which...
...women looked to him confidently, expecting him to save them in each crisis of attack or hunger, he was driven to superhuman feats of courage and ingenuity. To make a home, he drove a bear from a cave in the cliffs. He killed a mammoth caught in a pit by building a fire around...