Word: river
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plus 15, when the crossing was actually planned for sometime between D plus 30 and D plus 60. His sappers and bridging equipment had not arrived, but he commandeered every boat, plank and carpenter for miles around, and put 10,000 men and 3,000 trucks across the river in 48 hours. He repeated this tour de force when he crossed the Rhine...
Plagued by dysentery and mosquitoes, Cleaveland's men followed the paths their axmen hacked through the oak and hemlock. When food gave out, they broiled rattlesnakes, washed the meat down with rum. At the mouth of the Cuyahoga River, the leader paced off a ten-acre town square in the New England tradition, and set some of his men to work building log-cabin shelters. Result: Cleveland, Ohio-lacking an "a" because the party's mapmaker left...
...farmers, the time of the annual shui tsai (water calamity) had come again. The muddy Yangtze, gorged with weeks of heavy rains, was spreading over more than 1,000 miles of south central China's rice bowl. To the north, "China's Sorrow," the great Yellow River, raced angrily over the broad Shantung flatlands...
...Prichard, 57, chief of the U.S. Army's Public Information Division, wartime commander of the ist Armored Division in Italy; of a concussion suffered in a yacht explosion in which onetime diplomat Colonel Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr. and his wife narrowly escaped death; on the Potomac River, Washington...
...biblical legend, the neglected brothers eventually sell the favorite down the river. When the law catches up with Papa Monetti's free-wheeling banking practices, the oldest brother (well played by Luther Adler) fixes it so that Conte gets a seven-year stretch in prison for trying to bribe the jury. The rest of the plot, including Conte's sultry romance with a rich play girl (Susan Hayward), is routine...