Word: valleyful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Black & White. Negro groups, backing FitzGerald, set up a Vote Mobilization Headquarters in Paradise Valley, Detroit's Harlem. C.I.O., which spent $30,000 for FitzGerald in the primary campaign, tossed in almost as much again. But the city's three newspapers were solidly for Jeffries...
Then-&-Now. Seeing its man kayoed after he was so far ahead on points was a bitter dose to Paradise Valley Negroes. But labor's political strategists took heart. True, they had lost. But the last time they took an important hand in a Detroit mayoralty race they lost overwhelmingly, 260,95740-154,050. This time, in partnership with the Negroes, labor had furnished Detroit its first real mayoral battle in 20 years...
...bruising fight against terrain as well as pillboxes, snipers' nests, mined roads, concealed mortars' and artillery. The Apennine spine of Italy scatters rough, irregular ribs in all directions. Rain-flooded rivers gouge the land. Perched on heights above the valley-bottom roads, the Germans could give ground slowly and at a stiff price. General Mark Clark's Fifth Army pried them from Mondragone, the western anchor of their line. General Bernard Montgomery's Eighth bit sharply toward Isernia, key to the enemy's center, and Vasto, his east coast anchor...
Said Gunner Tefft, now recuperating from wounds at the Naval Air Station, Alameda, Calif.: "Every night [the natives] would gather around us and we took turns reading the Bible. They sang songs which we knew, such as Red River Valley and Carry Me Back to Old Virginny. When we left them, they were beginning to learn When Johnny Comes Marching Home. The only thing that brought us back was faith. You can tell the world that I am now a devout Christian...
...zero hour, the Germans thrust a column across the Volturno into the old town. Momentarily the Fifth staggered. Then Allied troops counterattacked. The Germans quickly turned, splashed back across the river. Northeast of Capua, General Clark's Yanks seized a clump of scrubby brown hills dominating the surrounding valley...