Word: straws
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next day we went east, riding in an Army truck accompanied by Father Megan. Trees on the road had been peeled of their bark. Peasants dry and powder the elm bark and then cook it. They also eat leaves, straw roots, cottonseed and water reed...
...line view of the first major contact of U.S. and German forces: a tank battle at Tebourba. There, from a hilltop that looks little more than a grenade-throw from the battlefield, the camera watches a group of Nazi tanks deployed in a small valley. German cannon, concealed in straw-thatched sheds, fire at approaching U.S. tanks. Then U.S. artillery takes effect; the Nazi tanks turn tail (their tails are painted red to identify them for their own planes). As they crawl away, one Nazi tank is smacked by a direct hit, spins helplessly on its tracks...
...light was bad enough, but in a blackout--Vag swore softly. Then the match went out. Slightly scorched, Vag disencumbered himself and grasped the nearest solid object to heave himself up. With a groan the table collapsed, spilling comment books about him. That was the last straw. The paper should wait. Vag groped for the comment book, and propping himself securely in the corner, started at the pages by the dim light of his last match...
...Mundt resolution was more than a significant straw in the wind. It was also a challenge to statesmanship. He also urged all other pre-Pearl Harbor isolationists-among whom there were many of unquestioned sincerity and patriotism-to back his stand...
...mine towns, in the beer taverns or standing in grim little groups near the black, smokeless collieries, idle hard-coal miners were bewildered too. They had struck hopelessly against John L. Lewis and a 50? monthly increase in United Mine Workers' dues. To them it was the last straw of Lewis dictation...