Word: rangely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...noon we slid down a vertiginous slope to a peasant hut, and just as I was gulping sour milk from a wooden bowl, a rifle shot rang out outside. I ran out and beheld, some 150 yards off at the edge of the forest, two grey timber wolves tearing at the udders of a prostrate cow. As the peasant's boy fired his second bullet, the big beasts looked at us with pricked-up ears and dignifiedly trotted off into the woods...
...June 4 a strong German force suddenly encircled our largely noncombatant columns. I was walking wearily with a column of fresh recruits and nurses when shots rang out in front of us. The line swayed and broke up, the people started streaming back through the forest...
Maxence d'Entremont was a big, jovial man with a big round head, no hair, a prominent brow, wide shoulders, a deep chest, long legs and almost no neck. When the doorbell rang in the morning he would shout: "The police!" When he led his daughter across the street he would say: "Let's keep together; it will cost them more to run over two persons." He could sketch brilliantly, but would not. He fought 17 duels...
...line went dead. Then it rang on again; the bombing was over in that section. But there was to be more, just ahead. The battalion moved its command post 50 yards up the road. Then it halted abruptly as the ripping-silk burst of a German machine pistol sounded up ahead. The enemy was still...
...cocker spaniel, produced ten photographs of a woman, posed in various stages of dress and undress, claimed that they were pictures of his wife in her more irresponsible moments. She denied the nudes, said the others had been taken when she planned to become a model. Before the bell rang for Round 15, an inclusive explanation of everything was offered by Witness Josephine Douglas, Clifford III's nurse: "The vibrations of the Heinz household were wrong because the kitchen was painted black...