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...than about his combat achievements. After the Armistice, Allen served with the Army of Occupation. One night, at a party in Occupied Germany, Allen arrived late and paired off, without introductions, with a charming British officer. They slapped each other's backs, swapped drinks and stories until the shank of morning. Next day someone asked Allen whether he knew who the Briton...
Putting its skis and snowshoes away until next winter, the Outing Club yesterday announced its program of spring activities on bicycle, canoe, and Shank's Mare. Beginning with bike and canoe trips this weekend, the schedule culminates in a cross-country bike race to Northampton on Memorial...
Persistent reports reached London last week that German troops were moving through the Tirol, down Italy's shank and off the toe to Sicily, where they were massing. From there it was expected that they would be transported to North Africa either by the hazardous sea route which the Italians use, or by air. London also heard that large parts of the Luftwaffe were destined for the Egyptian campaign, to give the Italian Army an overhead striking superiority something like that which the German Army used in the Polish campaign...
Hook. From Florida's tip to the top of South America the islands of the Caribbean swing in a great hook, its shank extending southeast, its barb curving south and west...
Well, maybe not full tilt, but a score or more "hard-rock" miners are gouging, chipping, blasting at those cinnabar-streaked granite tunnel walls, bringing out sacks of ore every day, to be "cooked" in the retorts there on the steep shank of the mountain. A week or so ago "Hap" brought out one rock that was might' nigh pure cinnabar. It weighed 130 Ib. He brought it through seven miles of tunnel from the very gizzard of the ancient mine...