Word: trenches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Penicillin can be given in ice cream. Doctors at the San Diego Naval Training Center, treating sore throat, scarlet fever and trench mouth, stir penicillin into soft ice cream, put the mixture in paper cups and refreeze it in a refrigerator tray. The ice cream preserves the drug, disguises its bitter taste, and slips easily down babies and other difficult patients...
Cried Radio Yenan: Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's troops, "corrupt and rabble-like" (but armed with "large numbers of field guns, trench mortars and American-supplied bazookas") had attacked Communist troops in the Shensi border region. It was "fullscale civil war. . . . Chiang's divisions declared that fighting the Communists comes first and fighting the Japanese comes second...
...They told us that a medium tank cost $90,000; an 81-mm. trench mortar $800; a 60-mm. trench mortar cost $500, and we made the appropriation on that basis." Mr. Engel said he learned later that a medium tank "actually cost" $60,000; an 81-mm. mortar less than $600; a 60-mm. mortar less than...
...clawed their way through the exits, packed with crazed, dying men. Through spattering gunfire from SS machine pistols and bazookas, most of the men staggered blindly for the nearby latrine even though it too was aflame. In a last gasp of agony they threw themselves into the excrement-filled trench where SS guards shot them and clubbed them to death, their bodies sinking slowly into the filth...
...Nazi hope of retreat to an Alpine redoubt was to be something more than the last act of a suicide. The Germans had labored mightily to build Vienna's defenses. In the orchard country to the south, cherry and apricot trees spread their blossoms over zigzagged trench works. On the heights at the north of the city the Germans had massed their guns to fire over the parks and palaces into the industrial suburbs...