Word: soggyness
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Up New York City's famed Fifth Avenue, spirits undamped by a chill rain that made banners limp and drumheads soggy, tramped 48,000 of the faithful, colleens and patriarchs mostly, as the young Hibernians are off fighting again.
At night, too, men, guns and tanks moved toward the front, and burrowed underground. Snow still lay thinly upon the soggy soil, and prime movers pulled sleds loaded with cannon and ammunition.
To the southeast, on the soggy approaches to Nikopol, five other divisions were Still desperately fighting their way down to the Black Sea. They were harried by the low-flying Stormoviks and pursued through the thick, black mud by Russian mobile columns. For many a German soldier the icy Dnieper...
After two seasons of soggy, reclaimed-rubber "victory balls," tennis players will get a new bounce this year. Balls are being made of synthetic rubber, and there will be plenty of them.
Jungle War. "The Japanese and the jungles-both are implacable. There is rain, a soggy, degrading heat, and always the dysentery and malaria. . . . Supplies for men and aircraft are scarce. . . . The preliminary skirmishes for Burma . . . are already going on. American-trained Chinese troops are clearing the way for the new...