Word: rocks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Empire's weaknesses. In his versatility this statesman, warrior, philosopher, orator, scientist, author had a quality of the Elizabethans. Britons thought of him as South Africa's late Governor General Sir Patrick Duncan had called him in the anxious days of 1941: "A great rock in a weary world...
From a radio dugout deep in Corregidor 's rock heart a boy from Brooklyn tapped out: "Too much for guys to take. . . . They have got us all around and from the sky. . . . Everyone is bawling like a baby. They are piling dead and wounded in our tunnel. . . . I know now how a mouse feels, caught in a trap, My name Irving Strobing. . . . Tell my mother how you heard from...
...Sponge. Against the Rock and its three smaller, neighboring islands, Homma now turned the full fury of bomb and shell. On the tadpole-shaped Rock men & women prepared to meet their end. Now they knew that no help would come...
...prisoners were obviously proud of their spotless barracks, cultivated rock gardens, weedless patches of green grass, a soccer field which they had leveled out of a hillside, an open-air theater which they built themselves...
Disaster at the Rock. The 250-mile-long southern front now ran across a fertile, oil-soaked chunk of Rumania and then wandered to the northwest along the Carpathians. On the wrong side of this front, isolated clusters of German troops continued to fight. Moscow reported that five Nazi divisions had been destroyed above Odessa. At Tarnopol the embattled garrison was being whittled down. In the forests near Skala ("Rock") on the middle Dniester, Red units battled the detachments of 15 Nazi divisions...