Word: yd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Against the 1,500 by 2,000 yd. triangular island of Engebi, Harry Hill sent the 22nd Marines, commanded by Colonel John T. Walker of Texas. Against cigar-shaped Eniwetok he sent men of the 106th Infantry (Brooklyn National Guard troops) of Colonel Russell G. Ayers, plus perhaps one battalion of Marines...
...little over 24 hours. As on Betio, the Japs who still lived crawled back at night into pillboxes filled with their own dead. The pillboxes had to be cleaned out again with flamethrowers, blocks of TNT and rocket guns. Namur, separated from Roi by a 200-yd. causeway, was the Japs' last retreat from the Marines...
...steel-headers more obnoxious (to nonfishermen) than ever. Hoarding "A" coupons, they haggle vociferously for weeks of delicious indecision as they plan trips together. This winter most are fishing the Green River, which flows near Seattle, the capital of the sport. Last week their cars were parked every 100 yd. along the best stretches of the Green...
Never Mind the Weather. Neither snow nor mud stop the dogs or their admirers. On sticky Saturdays tracks are coated with tar. Crowds of 15,000-all that wartime laws allow-relax in covered stands. Races take only half a minute over the 525-yd. track, with all six dogs sometimes finishing within i/io of a second...
...cloth screens at the end of the street and opening the wide iron gates, guards converted the two embassies and their grounds into one big compound. For the four days of the conference the Big Three lived and worked there, dining together each night, never more than 200 yd. away from each other...