Word: steeping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stalingrad is no longer a city of cheerful crowds scrambling down steep brown banks for an afternoon swim or an excursion on the Volga. It is no longer a city of men & women riding or walking to work with dinner pails and laced sacks over their arms. Stalingrad is now a grey smoking city above which fire dances day & night and ashes float in the air. Stalingrad is a soldier city burned in battle. Barges have stopped moving food, fuel and lumber up & down the river. Now ferryboats ply back & forth carrying supplies to the embattled city and removing...
Captain Hampton Green's bog-busters chewed switchbacks down a steep hillside of ice-hard dirt in a day and a half, ferried a river, scratched up the other side. Right on their heels, Lieut. Colonel Heath Twichell set his Negro engineers to bridging the tumbling water, singing as they sawed. Wading waist deep in the fast icy stream, they put the bridge across in 36 hours, sang hymns at a Sunday service down by the riverside after the job was done...
...Sand got into our shoes and socks and my sores got four times as big as they had been. Then we had three days on rafts made of rotten bamboos. My bed was six inches under water. Then we crossed the Chindwin and started up and down some awfully steep hills, some 7,000 feet high. I had had malaria every couple of weeks since December and the day we reached the Assam border I couldn't have walked another step. When we reached civilization I was down to 50% hemoglobin, had lost 35 pounds and my legs were...
...less a person than the British Commander in Chief of the Middle East, General Sir Claude John Eyre ("The Auk") Auchinleck. The Auk decided to plug Rommel at the neck of a funnel-the 35-mile gap between El Alamein on the coast and the northern tongue of the steep-sided, marsh-bedded Qattara Depression.* El Alamein is 70 miles from Alexandria...
...defense of Matrûh, the British drew up their line from that port south to the edge of the Qattara Depression-a great under-sea-level wallow bordered by steep limestone scarps and bedded with salt marshes. Even Rommel, they thought, would not try to outflank them by venturing into that...