Word: soiled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first U.S. troops to set foot on Axis Europe were paratroops. Their high half-boots hit the enemy soil early in the moonlit night of July 9, 1943-hours before Allied landing barges disgorged infantry, tanks and artillery on Sicily's shore...
...should like to point out that, due to the ever-normal granary plan, we started this war with rather substantial surpluses of grains which we did not have in the last war. Also, the record crops of 1942 may have been due in large part to the soil conservation practices put into effect by the present administration...
...from the south the Liberators flew to drop their calling cards at the Balkan door to middle Europe. They surprised Sedes airdrome, the big Luftwaffe base near Salonika, struck a savage blow and got away without loss. Four days later their wings swept again over Grecian soil, their bombs plastered Nazi airfields near Athens...
...outing for the wives of the officers and staff of the Electronics Schools and Soil Engineers will be held on Wednesday, July 7 at the home of Mrs. Phillip J. Finnegan, Preston Beach, Swampscott. If the weather is bad it will be delayed till Friday. Final arrangements will be made at the regular meeting of the wives next Tuesday...
Franklin Roosevelt brushed an ash from his shirt front, said (perhaps to forestall peace "negotiators"): The good judgment of Italians cannot be proved, of course, until the Germans have been driven from Italian soil...