Word: terraine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...placing Fitz at first, Stahl shifted Ned Fitzgibbons to center field, where he played when he captained his Freshman nine. The strange terrain seemed to affect both players as neither could get a hit and both committed errors at their new posts. The Harvard summary: ab r h po a e Leahy, lf 3 0 0 1 0 0 Heath 0 1 0 0 0 0 Fitz, 1b 5 1 0 13 0 1 Harvey, 2b 4 2 2 3 2 0 Barnes, rf 4 0 1 1 0 0 Gallagher, 3b 4 1 0 5 3 0 Drake...
Invisibility is better than protection, Levy said, and intimate knowledge of terrain is most important. Utilizing this knowledge of the countryside and employing guerilla tactics, units of the Home Guard have defeated troops of the Regular Army in war games in Britain. With such units in every town and hamlet, the English people form a widespread web to trap an invader from any direction...
Before the war, Rommel had traveled over the desert as a "tourist" and studied the terrain thoroughly. But he had no desert battle experience. So he established a training ground on the Kurische Nehrung, a sandy Baltic peninsula where UFA had filmed many a desert scene. His carefully picked soldiers lived in overheated barracks, learned to get along on dried food and vitamins, little water. Wind machines blew up artificial sandstorms. Rommel acclimated himself in a private hothouse...
...trimmings of tough flying went with the water-hail, sleet, air that was rougher than an Oklahoma line squall, terrain on which (said the pilots) a bird would break his legs in a forced landing. Yet the Chungking Ferry ran almost daily, riding instruments, dodging the Jap, who came up when there were holes in the weather...
...they must get there in a hurry. For China is fast losing her war with Japan, and that means that the United Nations are fast losing Asia. To beat China down, it is not necessary for the Japanese to take every bit of Chinese terrain, or even most of it. China is war-parched and war-tired. Chiang Kai-shek does not want to give up to the Japanese, but high in the councils of Chungking there are those who might make peace and set up with Japan an Asiatic imperialism, with the white man evicted finally and forever...