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...strongest areas lie on the flanks. From Sedjenane to Djebel el Ang on the northeast, and from Enfidaville to Djebel Sefsouf on the southwest (see map), the mountain chains are steep, and provide a natural defense in depth. But in the center there are two areas where the fortress walls are weak. These are the broad valleys of Tunisia's two main rivers: the Medjerda and the Miliana...
...Rommel's rear, but the Germans had refused to budge until this morning when they fled before Montgomery's powerful advance. 'We tried to knock 'em off Old Baldy,' said Sergeant Vernon Mugerditchian of Waukegan, Ill., jerking his head at a rounded bare steep cliff. 'We tried first with one battalion and then another, but we just couldn't. They were lookin' down our throats...
...Complication. From the fogbound Ways & Means Committee was coming a taxpayers' nightmare-a nightmare not because the taxes were steep, for the U.S., by & large, is prepared to pay high taxes, but because the plan is so complicated that not even experts are sure it would work...
...showed less in their accounts of the battles than in their home propaganda. Said Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels: "We are spared nothing. History is quite without grace or mercy. . . . Wherever we look, we see mountains of problems which must be mastered by us. Everywhere the path ascends at a steep and dangerous angle, and nowhere is there a shady spot where we may stay and rest...
...slowed the greatest long-distance movement of holiday travelers on record. Rail-riding Gremlins (who were harrying railroad operations long before the Wright brothers ever flew) were out in force. They clogged switches with snow, short-circuited signal lights, froze steam connecting lines between cars, iced the rails on steep grades, drank all the coffee in dining cars. Morning after morning the swank Twentieth Century Limited slid into Manhattan two to four hours late. On many another train, four to 13 hours late, passengers stood in vestibules, slept in aisles, heaped baggage and bundles to roof tops...