Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Everybody Fights. General Sir Harold Alexander, the Allied commander in Italy, had every reason to be proud of his polyglot armies. The doughty Poles took Monte Cairo, a rock mass more than a mile high, and Piedimonte; Amaseno and Castro dei Volsci fell to the French and their black colonials; United Kingdom troops entered Aquino and swart fighters from India occupied Roccasecca. The Canadians, some of whom nonchalantly swam the Liri River, took Ceprano...
According to Plan. The first step - -the beachhead - of the "final stage" went off smoothly. At Biak, largest of the is lands in the Schouten group, it was clear dawn. Offshore, the invasion task force under Rear Admiral William M. Fechteler hove to before the rock-pointed sandy beach at the southeastern heel of the island. From cruisers and destroyers poured a 19-minute barrage...
Sitting in his straight-backed chair, shuffling through the papers on his desk, the "great rock" could hear the bustle of the double-decked omnibuses in the street below, noisier than the hoofbeats of English carriages he knew half a century...
Dinner with the Marshal. As I write this dispatch, sitting on the grass with my typewriter on my knees, I can gaze at the deep perpendicular cleft cut in the huge rock where I had dinner with Marshal Tito last night...
...Couch, 80, dean of English belle-lettrists, two months after he was hit by a jeep; in Fowey, Cornwall. Known to all Eng land as "Q," red-haired Quiller-Couch (Couch, pronounced Cooch, means red in Celtic) wrote the first of his 30 romantic novels (Dead Man's Rock) in 1887, edited the Oxford Book of English Verse. An Oxford graduate, he was longtime (since 1912) King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at Cambridge. He always wore traditional morning dress to his lectures, relaxed in old clothes and a battered brown derby as famed in England...