Word: jaggedness
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Prayers, wailing chants and the mournful notes of reed pipes sounded last week in many a dusty, sparsely settled district of New Mexico and southern Colorado. On Ash Wednesday swart, hot-eyed Mexicans and half-breeds ceased their labors, stole into the moradas which are the secret churches of Los...
Last Sunday every important foreign correspondent with Italy's Northern armies was summoned to Marshal Badoglio's advance base on the flanks of Amba Gheden a few miles beyond Makale. Hollow-eyed, worried, the Marshal motioned the correspondents to be seated, then spoke out with Rooseveltian frankness. "Not...
At length, after swearing for a few minutes, he seized an empty bottle that was standing on the mantlepiece and broke it off about half way, leaving the neck and a jagged edge in his hand. He turned to the host.
Since a King must often speed unobserved from front to front in wartime, Italy's Royal Train is closely curtained with rich stuffs at night, shows no chink of light. Instead of the precarious passage from car to car amid jangling and jagged gadgets common on most European trains...
Reason: the Eastern Army, striving to bite its way in from Assab on the Red Sea to cut Ethiopia's only railway near Dire Dawa, (see p. 17), faces obstacles of terrain all but insurmountable. It must skirt the blazing, uninhabitable Danakil Desert, worm its way up jagged mountain...