Word: unsung
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...buildings were crammed with motor parts, tires, thousands of tons of food. The wood from opened crates, carefully salvaged for fuel and for building barracks furniture, covered a ten-acre field. Everywhere swarmed the unsung workers of the Army's rear-area establishment: quartermasters, engineers, ordnancemen, specialists of a hundred sorts...
...specific plans, which had to be shared with President Roosevelt, with Prime Minister Churchill, with General Marshall and the Anglo-U.S. staffs in Washington. But the ultimate responsibility was Eisenhower's. And to accomplish his job Eisenhower must lean heavily on his British-American headquarters staff, the unsung heroes who attend to the complex, dull details that are an inevitable and vital part of fighting...
...called it a "grand shambles of an experiment," remarked that it unquestionably accomplished "the greatest good for the greatest number." Foot-&-mouth disease has scourged Europe for centuries; in the U.S. it is now nonexistent, thanks to John Mohler, who rocked comfortably on his Washington porch this week, unmedaled, unsung and content...
...Coastal Command airmen, whose patrols are usually long, monotonous and unsung grinds, the battle was both a relief and a triumph. In four days, Coastal Command planes attacked 19 times, dropped hundreds of depth charges. One Liberator captain saw six submarines, attacked three within an hour. Another saw eight, attacked five in two days...
...young Yardlings who formed the society on March 6, 1808 "for their mutual improvement in instrumental music." But the gigantic number of six was not to be the steady diet of the society which, in the forlorn year of 1832, dropped to a single member, a faithful and unsung flutist, who managed to graduate from the University, practice, and keep enough of the Society's records intact to preserve its title of being the oldest orchestra in the United States...