All 10 Uses
Rio Grande River
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Flags of Our Fathers
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- It's the Rio Grande Valley at the bottom of Texas, the far eastern end.†
Chpt 2.
- Harlon Block was born on a farm there, outside of McAllen, down near the knife-blade tip of Texas where the Rio Grande empties into the Gulf of Mexico.†
Chpt 2.
- One day he saw a get-rich flyer touting the Rio Grande Valley.†
Chpt 2.
- The Valley is a seventy-mile stretch of land carved by the Rio Grande River between Mission, Texas, in the west and Brownsville, Texas, in the east.†
Chpt 2. *
- On the other side of the Rio Grande is Mexico, and the Mexican influence was evident throughout the Valley.†
Chpt 2.
- He took long walks in the swampy fields near the Rio Grande, the mosquito-laden fields.†
Chpt 4.
- The All-State pass-catcher, the boy who'd ridden along the banks of the Rio Grande on his white horse, stood there a moment, his hands filled with a heavy redness.†
Chpt 13.
- At San Antonio, Ira would have looked for lifts heading due south: toward the knife-blade tip of Texas where the Rio Grande empties into the Gulf of Mexico.†
Chpt 17.
- Toward the Rio Grande Valley.†
Chpt 17.
- She composed a letter to the Congressman from the Weslaco district, Milton H. West, signing herself "Mrs. E. F. Block," and using Ed's address in the Rio Grande Valley: In studying the picture of the famous flagraising on the peak of Suribachi I was convinced that the Marine at the base was my son, and began writing to several Marines that I was acquainted with to inquire if my son was the one in the picture and have received assurance from them that it was, but could not get definite proof until I got in touch with Ira Hamilton Hayes one of the survivors of the flagraising and received a lengthy letter from him identifying and verifying that it was my son...The Congressman forwarded both le†
Chpt 17.
Definitions:
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(1)
(Rio Grande River) a North American river; boundary between the United States and Mexico; flows into Gulf of Mexico
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)