Word: waterless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Things we will miss around Harvard: the "Bang bang bang" of Tom McNoeley of the boxing department ... the unique spectacle of a master sergeant waxing a floor ... "Stand steady!" ... the waterless showers at Dillon Field House ... the sweet aroma de sweat at 85 degrees in the cage--and STILL they ask us to do deep breathing ... lectures and films on the tactical use of the 63 1/2 millimeter anti-balloon carbine (obsolete since 1906) ... trying to read the SERVICE NEWS through a maze of misprints and proof readers' lapses ... all the things we'd like to print...
...shores. No coral reefs guard its coast. The Marshalls, like the Gilberts, are ancient atolls - coral reefs ringing irregularly around blank and limpid lagoons. On the reef, like beads in a necklace, are occasional land masses of coral sand, large enough to support airfields and artillery installations. Hot and waterless, the Marshalls lie under the equatorial sun and dead men begin to stink very promptly. Flat and naked, the Marshall atolls have no natural protection, but how well they are fortified was indicated at Tarawa...
...whole Axis foothold in Africa is likely to collapse. Allied troops can attack Triopoli by the easy route from Tunis. In that event Rommel, running before the British, cannot use the 600 miles of virtually waterless desert between Bengasi and Tripoli as a refuge in which to recover his strength-as he did last year...
...seven firms processed most of the nation's five-million-pound annual production of dried vegetables. Now U.S. plants can produce each year 15 million pounds of dried vegetables, 285 million pounds of dried eggs, more than 170 million pounds of dry skim milk, eight million pounds of waterless soup, unmeasured amounts of citrus concentrate. There are 82 egg-drying plants, mostly in the Midwest and Southwest (in 1940 there were...
...soon from his bases where the great headland swings out to the sea on the Gulf of Sidra. The suggestion was not lost on the British. Their pilots bombed the German base at Bengasi daily; ranging through the desert storms over the German positions, they fought daily dogfights over waterless wastes...