Word: minefield
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...climbed tirelessly up & down the mountainside, ministering to the flock. For the children he organized picnics and games, in which he himself joined. He made a bowling green for the men, and bowled with them. Villagers remembered how, after war's end, three youths wandered into a German minefield and Don Giorgio walked in boldly to give them help...
...case involved Britain's $3,500,000 damage claim against Albania for two British destroyers which ran into a minefield in the Corfu Channel, off the Albanian coast (TIME, March 3, 1947). The trial, which dragged on for almost two years, was nothing to arouse a Chicago police-court reporter, but it had its moments. Britain's Attorney General Sir Hartley Shawcross told how the destroyers' explosion had killed 44 British sailors, and had injured 42 more. Albania, he said, was guilty of acts that "amount to murder." Although there was evidence that the actual mining...
Last week the Army made its last Medal of Honor awards for World War II. The recipients were Staff Sergeant John W. Minick, of Carnegie, Pa., who crawled through a Hurtgen Forest minefield', tackled an entire German company and killed 20 before he fell; and Staff Sergeant Gus Kefurt, of Greenville, Pa., who led his platoon in a hand-to-hand encounter in France, killed 25 Germans before he was cut down by enemy fire. Minick's and Kefurt's Medals of Honor were presented to their widows...
...disease made her almost indifferent to her personal safety. When the guerrillas discovered a freshly sown minefield in the area where the 37th Division was scheduled to attack Manila, they picked Joey to get the information through. They taped the map to her back, told her to make her last confession, and sent her off. For 56 miles Joey trudged through Jap encampments and check points. Several times she was stopped, dismissed after a perfunctory search. She delivered the map safely...
...Bang. Near La Specia, Italy, despondent Adele Coppola decided to end it all, hopped up & down in an uncleared German minefield for 30 minutes without results, finally changed her mind and decided to go home and live...