Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...These atolls, these island harbors, will have been paid for by the sacrifice of American blood. They will have been scooped out of sand and rock, coral and volcanic ash, by a generation of Americans giving their service, their ingenuity, and their money. . . . How long can the United States afford to continue a cycle of fighting and building and winning and giving away-only to fight and build and win and give again? Rich as we are, we do not have the human or physical resources to dissipate our patrimony, generation after generation, in this manner." Naval operations in World...
...rush, he never lost his ingrained concern for the welfare of his troops. When two types of Arctic boot were sent to Alaska, he put a boot of one type on his right foot, the other on his left, and went for long hikes in rock and ice to see for himself which was better for the men. When two kinds of sleeping bags were ready for issue, he tried each for a night outdoors, in 60-below-zero weather...
...more of a sight to the doughboys was the fabulous Adlerhorst (Eagle's Nest), Hitler's 20th-century eyrie on a peak west of Bad Nauheim. The rock-hewn retreat, served by three miles of subterranean corridors, sported 1,000 air-conditioned rooms with hidden exposures of the rustic scene below...
Satisfied that he was limbered up Mr. Durrance . . . broke into a major theme of astonishing virtuosity: an outboard motorboat is drifting in a rock-girt bay, with no other sounds than the slap of waves on the hull and the seething wind. Then come a series of reluctant, coughing gasps as the pilot tries to start the engine. At last the motor responds to his desperate tug, and the little boat dashes across the bay, the puttering sound of the engine reflected faithfully by the towering cliffs ahead. The boat goes faster & faster, and at last races altogether...
...Mont-Saint-Michel, rock-ribbed island abbey founded in the 8th Century, intact...