Word: valleyful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attack began, "Jumbo" Wilson stated its obvious aim. Said he in an official proclamation: the objective is "to drive out the Germans and join up with the Allied armies advancing from Normandy." Clearly laid out for his forces were two major routes to the north: up the Rhone valley through the eastern third of France, westward through the Garonne valley to Bordeaux, to meet the Americans ready to strike south from the Loire...
First objective of the new strategy was Sidor. U.S. forces swarmed ashore in a surprise landing on Jan. 2, while Aussies fought down the steaming Ramu Valley, in the rear of the enemy, toward Madang. The next move, and every one thereafter, was to be a leapfrog pure and simple...
...wrote Playwright Maxwell Anderson last May, in a bitter poetic outburst for which the New Yorker paid him $180. What had moved Maxwell Anderson to sad song was a piece of gerrymandering. By redistricting, Anderson's South Mountain Road home in the Hudson River valley had suddenly become a part of Congressman Ham Fish's constituency...
...deadly green valley on Guam, a Marine in mottled battle dress worked slowly forward, Garand at the ready. Ahead of him crept another mottled figure: a brown and black Doberman pinscher with ears acock. Now and again the dog stopped; the Marine hand-signaled to it and the dog moved on. Then suddenly the Doberman stiffened. The Marine raised his rifle and the valley echoed with shots. From a tree ahead a Jap sniper tumbled and lay still...
...make his point, Finer gives a complete picture of the planning, financing, building and administration of TVA, plus its dividends to the Tennessee Valley people in a higher standard of living. The cost would be an obstacle to poor nations (ten-year TVA cost: $700 million), but Finer suggests that an international agency could finance sound, carefully planned projects. Then dams along the Yangtze would one day mean electricity for the lamps of China...