Word: ploddingly
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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...
These days are trying days for many of the lads as they plod into the highways and byways of the surrounding districts seeking, seeking--ever seeking for an apartment, a room or even a large size closet in which to hang the Coop's hat during our last four months. Some succeed, others...
...Last week many of the mules were still there in the interior of Burma, shuttling supplies around in the battle for Myitkyina. They will probably never bray in Missouri again. When the northern Burma campaign is finished, they will be turned over to the Chinese. Some day they may plod on east over the Burma Road into China...
...comedy hauled out of this unremarkable framework is one part radio, one part vaudeville, one part lunacy. The trail of the safari through the jungle is illustrated with an animated map. The voice of a commentator speaks: "Week after week they plod onward with nothing to guide them but the stars by night and the sun by day. . . . And so our safari is forced to rest-hoping to regain their strength with generous helpings of wart-hog stew." When a group of savages are arguing in their native tongue, very liberal English translations appear at the bottom of the screen...