Word: railroads
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
From the bridgehead, the Third Ukrainian Army of brilliant, heavy-set Marshal Feodor I. Tolbukhin then began an offensive. Despite the constant drizzle and occasional snow, despite rivers and swamps and wide ditches, the Russians spread out on the plain like a Danube flood. Through the railroad network of southwest Hungary they swelled to within 21 miles of Lake Balaton, central Europe's largest, reached 72 miles from Austria's nearest frontier. Mud was a curse. Moscow newspapers told of one unit that wallowed through mud for days, finally reached its first highway. Men cheered when they...
...base? By this week the Japs had snaked in past Pachai, only 65 miles east of Kweiyang, apparently had bypassed the Chinese units set out for distant defense of the city's rail and road approaches. Another strong enemy column had speared beyond Hochih, stood astride the railroad only 75 miles southeast of Kweiyang...
...midway between life & death. They stalked along the roads sightlessly, as if hypnotized; they held themselves stiffly, as if all their will power was needed to keep them from collapse. They prayed and scattered flowers on the mass graves like the one that had been dug near the Central Railroad Station in Warsaw...
Eddie Bracken, a would-be Marine hero, has been discharged from service because of chronic hay-fever, and is working at a war plant near his home town. The home-coming at the railroad station--the mayor orating, crowds cheering, the "hero" trying to get away, bands playing, the poor master of ceremonies tearing his hair as everything goes awry, and everyone (but Eddie) having a wonderful time--is a masterly bit of parody...
...admired each present-beginning with the red toy automobile, the gift of William Jeffers, president of Father's railroad. But in all the 250-odd gifts and the bushel baskets of letters, and telegrams, nothing was so satisfactory-not even the fuzzy kangaroo-as the presents from his parents, which Nubbins had particularly asked for: the wooden freight train, the toy jeep, the candy-filled locomotive. "It was a Christmas," said his father, "that little boys dream...