Word: sown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, by Nichols' order, wreckers were tearing down the building. Cost: $4,500. When the last brick is carted away, he will have black dirt spread over the site, and grass sown. Said he, glum for the nonce: "The lot will be just sitting there to give back to the Indians...
...built into rock and were amazingly well camouflaged. They were of two sizes. The four-by-fours contained machine-gun nests, the ten-by-tens hid each a mortar. The roofs were of railroad ties and rails buried under a two-foot layer of broken stone. The approaches were sown with the German anti-personnel mines...
...harbor, Italy's biggest port after Genoa, was cluttered with sunken ships. The Germans had sown the dockside with mines and booby traps, had destroyed warehouses and dock installations. The Germans had stripped the steel works, machine shops, locomotive factories, glass, wool, linen, silk, even macaroni factories of their machinery and left the buildings charred and gutted...
...postwar problems the one most thickly sown with mines, strung with barbed wire and most heavily fortified is the future of continental Europe. Last week FORTUNE, in a special supplement, fourth of a series on The United States in a New World, made a frontal assault on this intellectual Festung. Compared with much postwar thinking in the press about Europe, the proposals of FORTUNE'S editors are direct and bold. Their goal: "to create a new Europe. We are no more 'realistic' than that." But readers who could remember back before Hitler, before the Depression, recognized that...
...Germans had sown the slopes and the ridge with mines, booby traps, concealed anti-tank guns, mortars, machine guns and riflemen. Three times before, the third battalion had tried to take 532 and each time they had been driven back with losses...