Word: steeped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Land: Killing or Being Killed. Land fighting on Guadalcanal is unlike any other fighting in this war. The terrain around the flat beachhead is unique. It consists of high, steep ridges covered with chest-high grass, alternating with valleys choked with jungle. The Japanese cling, animallike, to the jungle. The Marines prefer the ridges, from which their weapons, particularly artillery, can dominate the valleys. But they go down into the tangle to hunt out their prey...
Knights of Malta. Largest of the five diminutive islands which cluster near the Sicilian Channel, flounder-shaped Malta is about 17 miles long, little more than nine miles wide. Steep cliffs rise out of the surf on her south shore; on her north, rocky boulders tumble into...
...overland "assault" across New Guinea's mountains consisted of a handful of troops, as the Australians found when they chased them back over the steep peaks and through the steaming jungles. In all New Guinea, which is bigger than Texas, it is estimated that there are not more than 20,000 Japs. General MacArthur has enough men to retake New Guinea, but offensives risk ships and the prize may not be worth the cost...
They were singing a Ukrainian song which has no name. They leaned forward to counteract the steep trail, their long swords jangling against their stirrups, their bodies creaking on leather...
...Angeles, the 80-ft. cable railway which had carried hundreds of passengers a day up steep East Bunker Hill ever since 1904 finally came a cropper to priorities on repairs and manpower...