Word: valleyful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sian (400 miles, five hours), went on by train to the Yellow River (70 miles, five days, one wreck, one washout). There they gave him a horse, and for three solid weeks he rode ten hours a day, sometimes on ledge-narrow mountain trails, to reach the Chin Valley. He got there just in time to send us one of the most important dispatches of the war -about how the Chinese had routed the Japs in the Chungtiao Mountains. (The Japs haven't completely occupied Shansi...
...British learned the same lesson in a heavy night raid on Bochum. which followed close on the heels of the American attacks. In the Ruhr Valley they found German anti-aircraft defenses greatly strengthened since the bombing of the Mohne and Eder dams (TIME, May 31). They brought back reports of ack-ack guns apparently massed miles deep along the industrial center...
...three weeks, waiting for the call. (The last time I wrote you about Hersey he was just back from Guadalcanal and the sea fight where they sank the carrier Wasp-and since then you may have read his best-selling story of a skirmish in the Solomons, Into the Valley...
...they are talking about the Danube Valley and disposing of the rights and happiness of the people there," Murrow wants to put his Danube Valley man on the air and "tell the world what the greybeards are talking about...
...money and should take its time about seeing who should get small amounts of it and on what special terms in each case. Anderson's is the kind of parochial shrewdness that refuses medical aid to the victims of a flood in a neighboring valley until such time as the medical history of each victim and his ability to pay has been thoroughly canvassed. It was precisely such a policy following Versailles that let the German mark spurt like a severed artery untied and bled white the currencies of most of the other European belligerents...