Word: files
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dawn when Barrow and I joined the troop movement; the cruelty of the heat and cloudless skies was already unbear able. The whole Sixty-Second Army was on foot. As far as you could see, strung over the horizon through rice paddies, in single file along the ruined rail bed, crawling through ditches on the devastated highway, were single files of Chinese troops...
cabbage patch, a 14-year-old French lad joined us and clapped his hands in delight. An old man picked up a wooden plank and tried to crush the skull of one of a file of German prisoners who were being paraded down the thoroughfare. Men and women leaned on their picket fences and smiled ironically at their erstwhile masters now humiliated before their eyes...
Paratroops, grotesque and awkward in their equipment, climbed into the C-47 transport planes. In swift succession the aircraft took off and crawled up toward the cloudy sky. With formation lights on because of the dense traffic, a parade of transports, gliders, tow planes, which in single file would have stretched more than 200 miles, droned across the English Channel...
...found parallel developments, forthwith began American-Russian meteorological collaboration. Later a Russian mission, including Lieut. Colonel S. T. Pagava, chief long-range forecaster, came to the U.S., traded more technical information. Now the British Meteorologic Office and the Admiralty have sets of U.S. archive charts, and duplicates are on file in every key weather station throughout the Allied world...
...line generals were in the ascendancy at the Army's top, the Nazi party bosses had no intention of losing their control over the rank & file. Unabashedly they borrowed an old idea from their bitter Russian enemy: an arti. cle in Hermann Göring's Essener National-Zeitung disclosed that political commissars were being assigned to Wehrmacht divisions to bolster German soldiers' morale, political philosophy and will to resist throughout the war's "decisive phase...