Word: terraine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most important Italian effort was aimed at Ioannina, in Epirus. Homer located Hell in Epirus, and the Italians saw why last week. It is only about 35 miles as the airplane flies from the Albanian border to Ioannina; but on the ground the miles stand on end. The terrain is violently mountainous. There are no railroads, and most of the roads are little better than shepherd trails. The area is crisscrossed with low valleys, and last week torrential rains made horrible mud ponds of the roads. It was no country for swift, mechanized, aircraft-supported lightning...
...real test. Ethiopia, a war against men whose only armor was the loin cloth, was no test. Neither was the Italian picnic in southern France. No one knows how enthusiastically the campaign in Egypt has been pursued. But this was war, and all the world was watching. Considering the terrain, the weather, and the vigor of the brave Hellenes, the Italians were doing all right...
...once only loglike alligators drowsed, a big bird alighted last week. It carried the Navy's crinkle-eyed Air Chief Jack Tow ers. Startled alligators gave the spot a wide berth. Less than a twelvemonth before, the bend had been a National Guard camp in typical northern Florida terrain -flat, sandy, scraggly with pine. Last week, six months ahead of schedule, it was a $15,000,000 naval air base, combed, brushed and parted with runways, hang ars, shops and barracks. The airborne Navy visitors looked on the Navy's handi work and found it good. There were...
...potentially a powerhouse with a line that in spots is the equal of any team in the Ivy League with two obvious exceptions. Coach Earl Blaik, in fact, hasn't been worrying too much about his line during the past week; he's been hunting all over the hilly terrain of Hanover for a climax runner, a runner with speed, a runner who can break loose...
...invasion of the Ukraine is now no more difficult for Germany than the invasion of Poland was a year ago. The Ukraine, like Poland, is almost entirely flat so that motorized columns can romp over it at will unless they meet their military match. The only major obstacles of terrain are the great rivers which flow southward into the Black Sea. While the Ukraine looks flat, it is actually underlaid by layers of rock sloping slightly upward to the east. These layers overlap one another like shingles and the rivers run beside the overlaps, with one low bank subject...