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...rain drenched clothes and cigarets, and the mud stalled traffic, the G.I.s cursed the engineers. The engineers were too busy to curse back. Under sodden skies by day, under arc lights by night, soaked night & day, with mud in their hair and eyes, the engineers worked on two main jobs: roads and airfields...
Homecoming. The line of motorcycles and automobiles swept in through the White House gates at 9:30 in a steady downpour. The crowds, sodden and silent after their moment of excitement, jostled slowly toward trolley-loading platforms, the masses of Government workers going back to their offices. Inside the Executive Mansion the President shed his dripping coat and hat and immediately went to his office for a press conference. The President's good humor had a steady, coal-grate glow this morning. The conference began with a burst of laughter. Franklin Roosevelt had just informed...
...cars loaded with burly Secret Servicemen, eyes on the second-story windows, hands on guns. The cavalcade passed through Queens to The Bronx, from The Bronx to Harlem, from Harlem to the canyons of Manhattan, and down Broadway. All along the 51-mile route were crowds, heads covered with sodden newspapers or umbrellas, legs chilled by the wind, feet soaked. Water rolled down the President's cheeks and dripped from his chin, stood on the lenses of his pince-nez. His thinning hair was pasted flat, and the raindrops trickled down the sleeve of his right...
...half a continent," and floating forests of trees and driftwood were a daily threat to the frail Queen Beaver. Arctic breezes whipped up icy waves that drenched the honeymooners to their skins. When they spent the night on a river island their down-lined sleeping bags were soon sodden with stagnant water...
Allied troops in north Burma and southeast China were only 26 miles apart across the savage mountains. They fought toward each other in wild, monsoon-sodden terrain (see map). But even if they succeeded in joining, it would be only a token. The real consideration in this remote. Godforsaken battleground is a road-and the road has to wait for clean-up in the rear, and until other terrain suitable for road-building is cleared by the fighters...