Word: jaggedness
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Civil War. The day General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery's Eighth Army began pounding Marshal Erwin Rommel's Afrika Korps in El Alamein, the Partisans of Bosanska Krajina moved northward down the jagged valleys of the Dinarian Alps to the outskirts of the Zagreb basin in Croatia. From...
"The attack went on. Two shells hit alongside each other in the left wing and exploded. Each ripped a jagged hole about four feet square. Two more landed, in the right wing this time. The radio operator -Technical Sergeant Eddie F. Espitallier of Clovis, Calif.-and the waist gunner knocked...
Burbank's Lockheed Air Terminal, with its buildings painted a wartime khaki, was drab under a cloudy sky when American Airlines' Captain Charles F. Pedley lifted his Douglas twin-motored liner off for the 4:30 p.m. flight to New York. He climbed gradually to skim the jagged...
Winston Burdett of CBS stood huddled in the cockpit of his plane, between the pilots. "Far below us lay the blue sheet of the Mediterranean and off to the right we saw the coast of Greece, barren and beautiful, with jagged mountains cutting down to the sea."
Thousands of feet above sea level tower the Owen Stanley mountains. Thick, jungly undergrowth, palms, bamboos, rotting and slimy vegetation cover their jagged flanks. Natives hoist themselves up the precipitous slopes by trailing liana vines. Waterfalls, gorges and limestone cliffs form freakish barriers. Strange, malicious insects infest the equatorial hell...