Word: rill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sisyphus was the fellow who spent all his time in Hades pushing a huge rock up a hill only to have it rill down gain as soon as he reached...
Religion & Happiness. Asia's richest gifts to the U.S., says Harvard's Philosopher-Emeritus William Ernest Hocking, are spiritual. Without its spiritual guid ance, "God knows what religion we would have - possibly Druidism, if we have a Celtic rill in our veins. . . . Whatever forms of religion are alive among us we owe to Asia." "We of the West," declares Novelist Pearl Buck, "need to have happiness restored to us, not through a new spiritual rebirth, but through a plain and simple return [to the Eastern conviction that] what makes a human being happy is to feel himself wanted...
...trickle of supplies to China, flown over the Hump from India by the U.S. Army Air Transport Command, has grown to a rill: almost 25,000 tons a month, as compared with barely half that in the good old days of the bad old Burma Road. In addition, the Fourteenth and Twentieth carry in much of their own gasoline. Of the A.T.C.'s tonnage, 25 to 40% goes to Chinese ground troops, under the personal allocation and supervision of General "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell. This comprises 75-and 105-mm. guns, trucks, jeeps, small arms and ammunition...
...southern column captured the major airfield two miles south of the ene my base. While bearded, dirty shock troops cleared the field of obstacles, the code "cafeteria lunch" flashed to Mer rill's headquarters. By the time the field was cleared, the first gliders and transport planes arrived with fresh Chinese troops, piled in reinforcements to carry the battle northward through Myitkyina's back door...
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