Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Ike Eisenhower who, by grace of The Dead, has finally put American, British and French troops back on German soil...
...brides were coming to Canada. Off a ship at an Australian port streamed Canadian girls who would have some adjusting of their own to do. They were the brides of Australian airmen who had trained on Canadian soil...
...Stilwell's successor, sized up the situation as serious but not irreparable. Said Wedemeyer: the Japanese are using a well-trained, well-equipped army in China led by "a very able commander" with the intention of fighting the war in Asia rather than on Japan's home soil. Nevertheless, he predicted that the Japanese could be defeated within a year after victory over Germany. The U.S., said he, would concentrate on supply for Chinese troops, continue air support for the Chinese Army. To Chiang Kai-shek he submitted recommendations ("simple and I hope sound") for immediate action against...
Expanding Pressure. But Germans did stand up to fight and die, to cling tenaciously to the German soil, to patch the breaches with more men against a grinding weight that expanded and extended northward to the British Venlo sector as the battle went through three smoke-clouded days and fiery nights...
...State. In attempting to account for the long decline and fall of Rome, Durant adopts a "multiple causation" theory. The metals in the Roman State-owned mines ran out. As the old freehold farming class lost its lands to the big owners of the latifundia, the productivity of the soil decreased. The State dole of grain brought men into the cities to join the workless proletariat, and the spoil of Spain, Gaul, Syria and Egypt made Romans think less and less about making fortunes through honest labor...