Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hunts -the mountain wildernesses of the western U.S. On the snow-covered trail of the biggest cat on the North American continent, sometimes grown to nine or ten feet in length from gorging on deer, the hunter must make as much as 30 miles a day. Creeping along rock ledges, plunging through rough timber, always pressing to keep his dogs within sound, he often follows a trail for days before he makes the kill...
Mohl jumped squarely on the first enemy; Corporal Frank Passarelli and Private Tom Boaz tackled the second; Corporal George Ickes stood up and shot the third at point blank range; Private Paul Reynolds, from behind a big rock, chopped down the last three with deft bursts from his Browning automatic rifle. Passarelli and Boaz had knocked their man cold; Mohl subdued his with a pistol butt. Back at an American outpost they radioed headquarters: "Mission accomplished, patrol returning." Sole U.S. casualty: Lieut. Mohl. His Jap had bitten him on the hand...
...that afternoon, the ammunition had run out. German counterattacks were in force, and the U.S. position was untenable. Retreat was ordered. Some swam across the Rapido. Others formed human chains. A sergeant tied wire to a pick, and hurled the pick across the river until it stuck behind a rock. Seven men then pulled themselves across. All the equipment was left behind. A huge German Tommy gunner on the bank shouted: "Hey, Yank, don't you want to surrender?" But he did not fire...
...Suddenly we saw a ragged edge, nosed up, and then boom!-the damned cloud had a rock in it. We thought that was the end and expected to spin. Instead we gained a little altitude. . . . The hydraulic system was out and we discovered a wheel was gone. . . . Then we found we had some control and [CoPilot Lieut. Cecil] Gibson agreed he was game to try to land. It took all our strength, both fighting all the way, to bring her down. . . . We knew a lot of guys in China would be mighty disappointed if the mail was lost...
...That. To defend Syracuse against the Romans (215 B.C.), Archimedes contrived huge rock-throwing slings, long poles thrust from the city's walls to drop missiles on enemy heads, great cranes that hooked into the prows of the Roman ships and hoisted them into the air, "burning mirrors" with which (according to legend) he set the fleet afire. Plutarch reported that Archimedes so terrified the Romans that "if they did but see a little rope or a piece of wood from the city's walls . . . they turned their backs and fled." But they captured Syracuse...