Word: steeped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rearguard's Fight. The little craft were taking the main forces of the Germans to the mainland. Left in the brown, rocky hills and steep-sided valleys to the westward was only a rearguard: battalions whittled down to companies, companies reduced to platoon strength...
...minutes past 8, a group of dive-bombers swung in from the left and circled back in our direction, and suddenly swooped straight for us in steep whining dives. A crash shook the earth directly in front of us, and smoke and the smell of burning was in the air. The ditch we dug our faces into was only one foot deep...
...climb grew very steep and we were all quiet. Wounds began to hurt and shock began to set in seriously. The sergeant moaned: "Doc, can't you keep my leg straight...
...three hills ahead of us, across a series of steep slopes and gulches, was the highest ground in the area. The Colonel ordered Captain J. Kelly and Captain Morris Belisle to take that hill. Off they went, with two companies...
Below us was a deep ravine clothed in low bushes. On the other side of the ravine was a steep hill-the one which Captains Kelly and Belisle had already gone ahead to take. Kelly's company and a company from another battalion were on the slope nearest us; Belisle's company was on the rear slope, out of our sight...