Word: rhine
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...general fell into step beside the young infantryman and together they plodded toward the Rhine...
...began, "that the things man... builds are more of a picture of man than man himself." Trudging inland from Omaha Beach, Gleitsmann got his first look at the bombed-out ruins of Europe, and that somehow completed the picture. He was hit in the hip at the Rhine, rolled into a ditch begging for his lost sketching kit: "In my semiconsciousness it became an obsession . . . The [wounded] men near me-partly out of sympathy and partly because they had a confused impression that something important was missing-began crawling up and down the ditch in a bewildered search...
...Rhine or Pyrenees? The argument in favor of making friends with Franco was largely military. In case of a war with Russia, top U.S. strategists have long argued, Spanish bases would be important. Spain is the key to the Mediterranean...
...anyway-since it is unlikely that Franco would side with Russia. Open U.S. reliance on Spanish bases would merely panic the French, who would regard it as advance notice that the U.S. does not expect to hold France. The French want the U.S. to make its stand on the Rhine, not at the Pyrenees...
...Table: Rhine, Sauternes,Chablis, Claret, Burgundy