Word: backe
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Every morning, through the streets of New York rumble huge, silver-colored trucks. On the back of each truck is a sign: Our City, Yours & Mine. Keep It Clean...
...week Wilfrid Fleisher, who for ten years was managing editor of his father's Japan Advertiser until it was more or less forcibly bought out with German money last month, arrived in San Francisco. For the first time in many years - since he knew he was not going back to Japan - he spoke with neither official nor self-imposed censorship...
...feat of which the strategic importance overshadowed even the valor of the men who did it. The town stands at an elevation of 2,500 ft. on the western scarp of the Morava heights. Its defense against assault from the west and north, whence Italy must try to come back or lose what remains of her sorry face, is made easy by artillery planted on Morava and on Mount Ivan...
...riflemen behind trees who played hob with the British regulars in 1776, the Greek mountaineers from their hilltops demoralized an army which had been told that the Greeks would be pushovers, in fact would probably welcome Fascism with open arms. When Mussolini spoke, promising that Greece's back would be broken (TIME, Nov. 25), the Greeks continued pressing, working with geography instead of against it. Frantically, the Italians called on their Air Force to strafe and disperse the attackers, and for a day or two there was carnage around Corizza. Then the R. A. F. arrived to bolster...
...just off the Turkish coast, and chugged through the night to Gaidaro, one of the islands of the Italian archipelago. Landing secretly, they surprised a police station, captured the chief and three of his men. Discovered and attacked, the raiders shot three Italian sailors, skipped to their launch, chugged back to Samos with their prisoners...