Word: yd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Captain Ritchie Clark described the initial attack on the command post on the plateau: "The Japs would come at us yelling like Indians and our men would shoot them at 30 or 40 yd. Whenever one was wounded he would grab a grenade and blow himself up. There were about 200 of them up here and the Americans killed around 130 in that first charge. The other 70 came back Sunday morning and we were ready for them. They saw it was hopeless and began holding grenades against their stomachs and blowing their guts out. In all we lost about...
Next to a mountain stream which runs down the steep slope were nine more bodies within a 25-yd. area. There were plenty of bullet clips in the little leather cases which hung on the wearers' belts. Near the bottom of the slope lay the body of a Japanese captain. His silk white handkerchief was centered by a lewd ink sketch. A couple of hundred yards down the valley we found a dead Japanese officer who carried, like most Japs, photographs of his wife and children. It had rained the previous night, so the officer's open mouth...
...which chicken feathers are glued with an asphalt adhesive. Because feathers are tough to handle, stick together on damp days, swirl around in the smallest breeze, methods and machines had to be devised to handle them. A special plant was designed to make the wire (20,000 sq. yd. daily) and feed the feathers (25 lb. to every 100 sq. yd.) on to it. (The feathered mesh is sprayed with a neutral color, ready for pattern painting...
...merely one of the great majority who pay the bills and keep up the courses so that the slashing youngsters can boast of playing a 450-yd. hole with a driver and a No. 7, and so that the pros will give your course their haughty approval, and maybe so that tournaments can be played there [in which case you'll be kept off the links for their duration...
...Action. Georges André, 54, famed French athlete (Rugby player, swimmer, boxer, fencer, cyclist, and track and field star); at Mateur, North Africa. An Olympic ace before World War I, he recovered from serious ankle wounds to set or break more than 40 national track and field records (100-yd. dash: 9.6 seconds), still held 14 at his death...