Word: valleyful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...secures the services of such patients as he desires. . . . The State furnishes him all food for himself and his family, and light and heat for his residence." The Superintendent's house was on a hill commanding a fine view of the hospital half a mile away in the valley below. Dr. Mills admitted that he rarely made a closer inspection of any of the 68 buildings. He applied for retirement...
...Osage, White, many others-roared like millraces, rose until they overspread their banks and engulfed the land. From Illinois and Indiana south to Missouri, Arkansas and Oklahoma, hundreds of thousands of acres seeded with the food the world is waiting for lay under water. Swirling chaos enveloped many a valley town and city. In Oklahoma, Iowa and Kansas, tornadoes added to the havoc...
...Waters' Destruction. British reconnaissance the same day brought photographs which told some of the story. In the valleys of the Eder and Ruhr, where the dams were blasted by the mines, there was terrible destruction. The waters of the Eder, released by the breaching of the Eder Dam, had swept the valley bare, flooding the airfield at Fritzlar, sweeping through farms and villages beyond the industrial town of Kassel, which was partly inundated (see map). The Ruhr, swollen as if by a tidal wave from the blasting of the Möhne and the Sorpe dams, had flooded town...
...Gang comedies. To Major General Terry Allen it was a satisfying pride in his 1st Division and an occasional chance to talk polo with a British major over a cup of tea. To many another soldier it was a grave in a clearing at Bèja, in the Valley of the Medjerda...
...which took ridge after ridge only to leave pockets of the enemy in its rear. The Germans had mortars sunk in gullies which could be captured only by hand-to-hand combat. They had heavy artillery which covered the hills on both sides of the pass and the valley between. And they had observation posts on the highest peaks which could direct their fire anywhere. The 9th Division, in its first offensive action, could not keep pace with the ist. Its officers, particularly the battalion and company commanders, were not so well trained or experienced...