Word: valleyful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the town of Craincourt, southeast of Metz on Lieut. General George S. Patton's Third Army front, U.S. officers trained field glasses on Germans struggling up the muddy slopes of Delme Ridge, a 1,300-ft. eminence, four miles long, which blocked a valley. With their fleece-lined greatcoats flapping in the wind, the Germans were lugging mortars and cases of ammunition...
...Into the valley of Death ... no, no, no! You'll have to wait for the official communique before you mension where the figting is takeing place. You could mension there was patrol activity in certin areas, but you're not allowed to state the actuel place.' (Slash...
...Allied Commander in Chief General Sir Harold R. L. G. Alexander conceded that the campaign was stuck. In his first interview in six months, quiet, expert Alexander agreed that the Gothic Line break in September was a failure: the autumn rains had bogged down the drive before the Po Valley was conquered. Said the General...
Anchorites and Dynamite. Then, to augment the Jewish terrorists, there arrived a surprising ally-the Nazis. Three Luftwaffe officers parachuted by night, probably from Crete, into the stony wilderness west of the Jordan Valley. Their twofold mission: to hamper the British war effort, to discredit the Jewish cause. They were discovered a fortnight ago when Arab urchins reported that a low-flying plane had dropped a bag of British money. In a cave once frequented by medieval anchorites police arrested three husky Germans, confiscated their radio sets, machine guns, explosives, and 14 German-made maps of Palestine...
...Washington in 1929 by way of Texas, the U.S. Naval Academy, Harvard Law School, and private law practice in Manhattan. He joined the Department of Justice's Antitrust Division under President Hoover. There he won national renown by defeating Wendell Willkie in the historic battle of the Tennessee Valley Authority v. Commonwealth & Southern. Said Willkie: "He is the most dangerous man in America-to have on the other side...