Word: rocks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Newfoundland, 400 miles long, fertile and flat, is rimmed by high (200-ft.) rock walls. For a naval base there, the Navy chose 22 acres on the south side of St. John's Harbor. On landlocked Placentia Bay it took an area of two square miles for an air base and training ground for the U. S. Army...
...secondary defense line. Another Greek pursuit column harried the Italian retreat toward Moskopole ("Perfumed City"). Greek and British warplanes bombed and machine-gunned long columns of dejected Blackshirts and Alpini, whose welfare was further menaced by mutinous Albanian battalions in their very midst, by Albanian snipers, knife-men, rock-rollers and bridge-blasters in the gorges and ravines along...
...bomber. The plane took off, heading north over shadowy peaks toward an Albanian port. Soon they ran into heavy mist, then a rainstorm moved in from the sea. When the pilot realized he was off his course, he dropped a flare that lighted up the hills, showed the sheer rock face of a bluff looming ahead. He dropped one bomb to lighten the plane, had no chance to release another. On a desolate peak near Danilovgrad, in neutral Yugoslavia, Ralph Barnes died in action with three...
Dumbarton Oaks stands just across Rock Creek from the nation's capital. The house was built about 1800 and was long the home of John C. Calhoun of North Carolina, as Senator, Secretary of War, and Vice-President. A plot of land was deeded with the mansion, but the largest part of the property surrounding the house has been presented to the District of Columbia as a public park...
...four plays a year instead of two should be a pat on the back to any undergraduate playwright with a burning manuscript in his pocket. And the Student Union Dramatic Club, too, should pop up again this spring with as good a production as their "The Cradle Will Rock" and "Waiting For Lefty" of the last two years...