Word: ypres
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...words "gas warfare" and "experimenting" stirred macabre memories. There was the afternoon of April 22, 1915, when German infantrymen gave the world its first whiff of poison-gas warfare by sending a huge, grey-green cloud of noxious chlorine rolling over two French divisions in the trenches at Ypres, killing 5,000, incapacitating 10,000, and cutting a 31-mile swath in Allied lines. There were the later bar rages of phosgene, chloropicrin, and particularly, of mustard...
...from early age that he would follow his father in the family business: "I had no doubt about the adequacy of the firm social order about me." That social order collapsed with World War I. Serving in the artillery, Corporal Erhard was severely wounded during the murderous battle of Ypres. After seven operations, his left arm was still shorter than the right and one leg was badly shattered, an injury that still forces him to wear orthopedic shoes...
...General Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart, 83, one of Britain's best-known soldiers, the proud possessor of eleven battle wounds and many more decorations for valor, a lanky Oxonian who lost his left eye battling dervishes in Somaliland, and his left hand during a grenade charge at Ypres in 1915, and became Churchill's military envoy to Chiang Kai-shek in World War II; in Killinardrish, Ireland...
...World War I's calamitously costly Ypres offensive, only 49 of 500 Gurkhas in one battalion survived the first day's fighting-but they captured their objective and garnered new laurels, as a laconic British communiqué put it, "at the expense of their existence." Gurkhas were the only regiments to break through the Turkish lines at Gallipoli; in 1919 they chased the Bolsheviks from the Persian border and penetrated deep into the Caucasus before they were called off. In World War II, the 200,000 Gurkhas served with greater distinction in Africa. Burma and Italy-notably Monte...
...four of the combinations involving letters J, K, L, P, R, S, W, X, Y are deemed useless on the ground that no one could countenance a telephone number beginning with something like YPres, YLang, WRath or KRemlin. That leaves only 60. Even with an additional number tacked onto the two-letter code, creating exchanges like PRospect 1 up through PRospect 9, there are still only 540 combinations available. This was more than enough until Direct Distance Dialing came on the scene in 1951. The U.S. is now divided into 105 code areas, each having its own three-digit number...