Word: seacoasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...natural aristocracy . . . the grounds for [which] are not wealth and birth, but talents and virtue." In his old age, infirm and debt-ridden from the years he had given his country, he had the abiding faith to write: "I have observed this march of civilization advancing from the seacoast, passing over us like a cloud of light, increasing our knowledge and improving our condition. . . . And where this progress will stop, on one can say. . . ." The Path Down. Not every American generation would have raised a monu ment to Thomas Jefferson. He was too complex (and too daring) to be easily...
...Saturday night rolls around every week. Then they can sign out for as long as they like. The rest of the time it's pretty much work for these women the will more straight into shore jobs which new keep valuable male officers on the beryle side of the seacoast...
...treacherous sink of Chott el-Fedjedj hemmed Rommel's inland flank. Just north of the chott were the U.S. troops of Lieut. General George S. Patton Jr., threatening to drive down out of the hills, cut across to the seacoast and block the German retreat. At Bou Hamran they were only 55 miles from the coast; in their position east of Maknassy, only...
...week's end the British stiffened up. British naval units in the Bay of Bengal helped by shelling the Japs along the seacoast. Allied planes bombed the Jap port of Akyab and pounded communications. But the Jap hold on Burma was unshaken...
Anderson's advance columns, fingering in toward the Axis strongholds of Tunis and Bizerte on the seacoast, were mauled and forced back. German tanks harried them. German paratroops leap-frogged behind their extended positions trying to disrupt their communication lines. The Luftwaffe dominated the grey, dripping skies. There were disquieting reports that the Axis, pouring in airborne reinforcements from Italy, had gained numerical superiority along the fighting front. On the heights overlooking Mateur and Madjez-el Bab, Anderson's lightly armed advanced troops grimly hung on and waited for heavier troops to crawl...