Word: plodded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While the winter lasts, every weekend is festival time on Montreal's Mount Royal. Up the snow-cloaked mountain, rising from the heart of the city, youngsters pull sleds and toboggans (which early Canadians copied from the Micmac Indians). Skiers plod up through the powdery snow. A few, bundled under buffalo robes, ride up grandly in bright red carrioles behind teams of steaming horses...
...Military Government completed plans for repatriation of Germans and Austrians. About 200,000 Germans would come from Austria into the overcrowded U.S. zone of occupation. All Austrians in Germany would plod back to hamlets and cities from which war had wrenched them...
...gnawed at them without waiting to get home. All shops were closed except food markets, and their stocks were pitifully limited. Partial electric service has been restored, but there is no gas yet, and some Viennese families have gone months without one hot meal. From the Vienna woods plod long lines of poor women, many of them barefoot, sweating and staggering under heavy loads of faggots for the city's stoves...
Parking Lot. Whatever needs repair is left behind, at great collecting points. In NÜrnberg, as the liberated remnants of the Wehrmacht plod homeward past the great stadium where Hitler ranted, they see it turned into a vast parking lot. where thousands of vehicles, artillery and materiel of all kinds await redeployment...
...tropical rains pelted down, made the ground so slippery that to climb the slightest incline men had to plod up with "herringbone" ski technique, or haul themselves up by thick overhanging vines. Some U.S. units were fighting three or four days from their base; their supplies were brought in by human pack trains-soldiers and Filipino laborers...