Word: tennes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Blazes. In Tacoma, an electrical bed-shaking apparatus rigged up by Emmanuel Schrader to wake him at the right time started shaking at the wrong time, went on shaking till it short-circuited, burned the house down. In Dandridge, Tenn., lightning struck Hugh Hunter's cow barn, set it afire, traveled along a pipe to a water tank on a nearby hill, ripped the tank open, let out a stream of water that ran down the hill and put out the fire...
...tall, with curly hair and beard, a voice like a bull's, a heart like a tiger's, and he was the best damn cavalry commander in the American Civil War. (At least, that was what his men all said.) At Thompson's Station, Tenn. he drove a Federal battery and mounted troops from the field, made 1,500 men surrender to his inferior forces. At Black Creek, in 1863, after five days marching and fighting, he captured the Union's Colonel Abel D. Streight with all his artillery and 1,200 men. So disruptive were...
...were less than five minutes from our target-"Z-field," a meadow near Lafayette, Tenn., where the divisional command post was to be established. Ground mists had kept us fairly high. Ahead and below we could see other tow planes flitting along. Now gliders were cutting loose, swinging off to land in the little tree-bordered fields ahead...
...their unwilling fellowship. Last week the press was permitted to inspect some of the camps newly built as by-products of victory. One of the most notable that newsmen saw, because it houses the most explosive elements (German and Italian officers, but quartered separately), is Camp Crossville, Tenn...
...Northern Army Air Field, Tenn...