Word: rainbows
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Thursday broke with a heavy overcast, darkened in patches by rain squalls. The sun tried to pierce the vapors, and a rainbow appeared. At the end of the rain bow, as the seaward-looking Chamorros saw it, were most of the U.S. Fifth Fleet and 'the ships of the Third Amphibious Group under round-faced, round-bellied Rear Admiral Richard L. Conolly. At the end of the rainbow, as the shoreward-looking U.S. seamen and assault troops saw it, was the airstrip on Orote Peninsula...
...spit on Great Wall of China a multi-hued rainbow rises above Gobi Desert...
...knocked them out with TNT. Infantry. On the heels of the demolition units went the infantry. It was not announced which divisions were in the first wave, but two U.S. divisions were identified as taking part in the invasion: the storied ist, once predominantly a Brooklyn outfit, now a rainbow division of men from many states, veterans of the North African campaign; the 29th, a National Guard outfit whose ranks were originally filled with men from Maryland and Virginia...
...history, once said: Give me allies to fight against. Though Teuton militarists admire Napoleon very much, there was no comfort in his dictum for the Germans who faced Alexander. In Italy, Alexander was certainly commanding allies, but in Egypt he had successfully managed an even more polyglot and rainbow-hued aggregation. He had learned how to get air, naval and ground commanders to function smoothly together. His was no divided command. He was the boss...
...unusual length, with no flesh, short ears, as if they had been cropped, and with long faces of a highly intellectual cast. They were also of such activity -that few greyhounds could clear a ditch or cross a field with more agility or speed. Their backs formed a rainbow arch, capable of being contracted or extended to an inconceivable degree...