Word: railhead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flatcars and boxcars. Up front the tired locomotive leaked steam at the joints while soldiers loaded the train with supplies -chickens, pigs, a couple of fresh red and white slabs of meat crusted with flies. Finally the train lurched sorrowfully out in the heat up the line to the railhead...
...took working bloody, two hours to do twelve miles and we came to the railhead. Thirty miles up ahead were Japs. It was six o'clock by the time we found billets in an old factory dormitory that smelled like an abandoned pigsty-the kind whose odors are latent but deep, and revive each time you kick over a stale pile of dirt. We lay sleepless through the night...
When the road is done; it will link the Calcutta railhead of Ledo in India with China. Only then will Lieut. General Joseph W. Stilwell and his Chinese allies coming from Yunnan have made their objective. The road will also complete a backbreaking, distasteful job for dambuilder Brigadier General Lewis A. Pick-now a highway builder and the boss of Pick's Pike...
...that the Germans were on the offensive along a 155-mile front in the middle and upper Donets River regions, presumably near Izyum. Troops operating in the "area of Kharkov," Berlin said, had encircled the Soviet Third Tank Army. Other forces were said to have "stormed" Slavyansk, an important railhead north of Stalino, which the Russians had recaptured in mid-February. The Germans were evidently bent on holding the Donets salient as long as they could, regardless of what happened in north Russia...
...Captain Smith and his Commandos came telegrams giving each of them two days to return from furlough. When they met at the railhead "they were still congruous with civilian notions of tenderness . . . One could easily envisage the disentanglement of a sergeant's gear from feminine articles, helmet recovered from a web of stockings, rifle extracted from a flimsy slip." A few days of special training in friendly, sheltered coves, and then "the filing into craft by twilight, each man in his proper place and fighting order...