Word: valleyful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vacationing in Sun Valley, Secretary of State George Marshall stated grimly: "The reduction proposed would, I consider, alter the European program from one of reconstruction to one of mere relief...
...headquarters for his Jewish "Special Night Squads" in the hilltop Jewish settlement of Ein Harod, facing Mount Gilboa. He considered that Israel's King Saul should have pitched his camp in the same spot, instead of in the valley below. In time, Wingate's "S.N.S." grew into Haganah's shock troops, Palmach. But that was after Wingate's day. The British government, which thought him too friendly to the Zionists, recalled him from Palestine...
Washington's George Marshall, vacationing in Sun Valley, Idaho, saw brief action in the daily softball game. Getting a good grip on his lip (see cut), he took his cut from an open southpaw stance, grounded out to the pitcher in the first inning, then sat out the rest of the game...
According to legend in Lebanon, long ago a defeated army was driven into a cave in the valley of Antelias and walled up to die of starvation. The man who breaks into the cave, says the legend, will find whitened skeletons like the valley full of dry bones that the Lord showed the Prophet Ezekiel...
Dusty Plain. Israel's fighting men were desperately trying to reopen the lifeline road. Last week they attacked near Latrun, where commanding hills suddenly rise from the rocky plain. Near by is the Ajalon Valley, where Joshua commanded the sun to stand still until the Israelites "had avenged themselves upon their enemies." Last week the moon was not so obliging. Haganah fighters, who are used to night battles, had attacked in its light. But heavy Arab fire stopped them. The morning sun found Jews still in the dusty plain, firing from the cover of rocks...