Word: valleyful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...richest German industrial prize in the west-the Ruhr Valley-last week turned out to be a thorny package...
...this bucolic picture: "Old Heidelberg today slept in the April sunshine, in a cloud of appleblossoms, as tranquil and placid as the mirror-smooth Neckar River. Here the war seems something far away. On this Sunday, the first after Easter, the people of all the towns in the Neckar Valley were out in force for the great weekly business of churchgoing. The big men were richly dressed in tail coats and high hats, their great stomachs resplendently vested in oyster white or French grey...
Colonel Dodge herself was not in the office. As chief UNRRA health officer for the area from Athens to the middle of the Greek peninsula, she was off in a valley some 60 miles from Athens, helping sick, starved villagers who were out of reach of Allied supply lines...
...Khaki Dodge is lively, enterprising, hard to discourage. Arriving in Greece late last autumn to be chief medical officer for the headquarters district of the Military Government, she found herself persona non grata. The British did not like skirts on this job. So she set off for ruined Sperkheios Valley. There she found that Captain Robert Mayers of the U.S. Army had already set up three hospitals while the Germans were still theoretically in possession (TIME, Jan. 29). But the people did not keep the hospitals clean, and were not only starving but also suffering from malaria, dysentery, typhoid, exposure...
...fevered lips parted and sounds came from them. They did not sound like words, but the young marine had caught the thread of prayer. Thickly he followed the passage: 'Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for Thou art with...