Word: strung
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British Mediterranean Fleet on the left, mine traps below ground, planes overhead. "The tortoise has stuck his head out of the shell at last," gleefully confided one British officer. But not yet was desert-wise Graziani a tortoise floundering in the shifting sands. He waited, strengthened his strung-out garrisons, brought up more water, dug new wells to replace those salted by the British in retiring. His object was to prepare Sidi Barráni as a base for his next thrust forward. As he did so, the British cracked at his vulnerable line of communication...
...Ross has rubbed shoulders with many a leper. But lightning, not leprosy, set him off on his mission career. In 1901 a bolt struck a toy telephone he had strung in school, narrowly missed killing a Negro student named Jacob Kenoly. Student Ross never forgot. Later Kenoly founded a mission school in Liberia and was drowned while fishing for his scholars' supper. On the day that Emory Ross got a letter telling him of Kenoly's death and asking him to take his place, he was offered a good job in a bank. For once lightning struck twice...
Next afternoon, over the dust-deep roads of Walker County, fierce with Alabama's autumn sunshine, 25,000 people went to pay their last respects to "Mr. Will." Jasper's First Methodist Church was roped off-a piece of twine strung from a telephone pole to a soapbox to a fireplug to another telephone pole. Men in overalls and blue denim shirts lined the street. Fans waved under tattered parasols. The loudspeaker brayed a prayer. Sweat-stained hats came off; the crowd's murmur hushed. Children scuffed their feet in the dusty heat...
...morning when a British coastal convoy of 18 ships, strung out for a mile and guarded by destroyers, steamed under the tall chalk cliffs of Dover, a series of four bright flashes, closely spaced, followed by heavy smoke puffs, were seen on the French Coast, 20-odd miles away. About 80 seconds later four geysers spouted in the Channel near the convoy, accompanied by the crashing roar of four big shells exploding. At last the Germans were trying out their threat to "command the Channel with coast artillery...
...Mary Lamb became a devout Mohammedan. Even then her nerves were high-strung: she was much upset when her Grandmother Field remained an Unbeliever. But Mary soon found a new interest: from the names on gravestones she began teaching her younger brother, Charles, the future author of the Essays of Elia, his letters...