Word: steeped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most hushed-up campaign of World War II is the war in the steep barren mountains of Serbia that the Axis has not, after more than six months, been able to end. Some of last week's unconfirmed reports on this...
...plane goes into a steep dive and Mac, his eye to the bombsight, takes command: "Right a bit. Left a bit. Steady at that!" Four bombs are short, but the fifth, a 1,000-pounder, whangs the target with an explosion that drowns the plane in white light. Twisting and turning to get out of the searchlights, F for Freddie heads for the Channel and home...
...Stand steep and keep the fading light...
According to legend, a band of Incas fleeing through Peru in the sixteenth century captured a golden cross from the pursuing army of Pizarro, and to prevent its recapture planted it on the very topmost peak of a towering mountain whose steep ice-bound sides would be impassable to the Spaniards...
Although they suffered from not being acclimated to the rarefied air, the party toiled upward for several days over steep ice packs and snow banks until two huge cornices, or overhanging ledges of ice, and a dangerous avalanche tunnel barred all further progress...