Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Colonel Dodge herself was not in the office. As chief UNRRA health officer for the area from Athens to the middle of the Greek peninsula, she was off in a valley some 60 miles from Athens, helping sick, starved villagers who were out of reach of Allied supply lines...
...reach the Patton story I jeeped from Paris to the Group, flew a Piper Cub to one airfield, flew a Stinson to another, slept on the floor, saw Patton, wrote the piece riddled by censorship rules, slept on the floor, jeeped to the XII Corps Headquarters, slept on the floor, changed jeeps for a 125-mile ride through spearhead territory, slept on the floor, jeeped back to Corps Headquarters through towns that exactly 20 minutes later were reoccupied by 5,000 Germans in a moving pocket, reached Corps Headquarters to find I had only 35 minutes in which to write...
Easter Eggs? There will undoubtedly be hard fighting here. Jap discouragement has yet to reach the point of refusal to fight. But the strange little men lost their best chance of killing a lot of Americans when their general decided not to defend the west beaches. Perhaps the Jap commander was so certain that we would land on the east or south that he put all his eggs in eastern or southern baskets. His pillboxes on the western beaches were jerry-built of scrub-pine logs, lightly covered with sand and coral. Only a few bursts were fired from...
...surmounting a soaring edifice of pillared concrete with a 328-ft. statue of Lenin in stainless steel (see cut). The crown of his bald pate was to tower 1,364 ft. above the nearby tomb in which his embalmed body lay. (New York's Empire State building would reach only to the statue's midriff...
Wonderland at Last. "It is a characteristic of British thinking, on the whole," says Author Lennon, in her book's most discerning passage, "that each man thinks for himself, yet all reach the same conclusions." But Lewis Carroll, she believes, belongs with that strange, not-quite-sane minority of British child-humorists (Charles Lamb, Charles Kingsley, W. S. Gilbert, James Barrie, Edward Lear) who "have all been to the Never Never Land at the Back of the North Wind, to the Snow Queen's country - to the edge of insanity, [and fetched] a treasure from the borderland...