Word: steep
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second, seemingly without warning, we were on the top of the earth dyke looking straight down into the canal, while the boat crews were hurling their boats down the steep slope into the water. As they hit the water, the Scottish sergeant in charge yelled: "O.K., me lads-who is for th'other side-a bob a ride, a bob a ride." And then we were paddling frantically-except for the two who missed their footing and were being dragged out of the icy water. The disgusted sergeant cursed them heartily, but everyone on the boat laughed-a little...
...steep bank ahead was still burning furiously as we approached it, and unintentionally I said aloud: "How in hell are we gonna get up that?" The Jocks laughed, scrambled ashore and charged up the bank...
...same press conference, Eisenhower implied that by now the Germans were virtually committed to fight the last western battle in front of the Rhine. His reasoning: Allied air power can destroy the river bridges behind them at any time. The steep-banked, swift-running Rhine is higher now than at any time except in early summer. Between Cologne and Dusseldorf the river is 380 yds. wide. To get back across it with the bridges down would be, for the Germans, "almost a naval operation." The Germans know this, but they are still sending reinforcements westward across the Rhine...
...long and 5 ft. in diameter, which soars to the astounding height of 60 to 70 miles.* Reports from Sweden were that it has a range of 250 to 300 miles, and that its maximum velocity is around 4,000 miles per hour. Near the end of its steep fall, atmospheric resistance slows it down to 1,000 m.p.h. or less, but since that is still faster than the speed of sound, it gives no audible warning. The whoosh of its passage is heard after the explosion. It digs a crater 30 ft. wide by 30 ft. deep...
...stern punishment for all those in Germany directly responsible for this agony of mankind. The German people are not going to be enslaved. . . . But it will be necessary for them to earn their way back into the fellowship . . . of law-abiding nations. And in their climb up that steep road, we shall certainly see to it that they are not encumbered by having to carry guns...