Word: arcing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story of his, or any newsman's life-but he couldn't write it. There he was, sitting in a Superfort, with arc-welder's glasses to protect his eyes from the glare, watching the atomic bomb bore down on Nagasaki. But able, sad-faced William L. Laurence's lips were sealed. He was the Army's guest...
...more than 6-295 were fighting the air war against Japan. Allied Army, Navy and Marine air forces, flying every variety of heavy and medium bomber and fighter, helped beat up a 5,000-mile arc. From the Kurils, down through the home islands and the home waters, through east China and the East and South China Seas the planes ranged on missions of blockade, strategic attack and tactical support...
...half-inch steel plate 50 feet under water at a rate of 52 inches a minute. Developed by the Navy and the Metal and Thermit Corp., it is an under water adaptation of a device known as the "arc-oxygen electrode." Underwater, it is a vast improvement on the oxyacetylene torch, which works only down to 15 feet...
...French troops were the storm center. Seldom had France so crudely alienated its 4,000,000 sensitive Syrian and Lebanese subjects as when the cruiser Jeanne d'Arc slid into Beirut harbor last month to land a thousand Senegalese soldiers. Instantly Syrians and Lebanese saw a threat to the independence they had long been clamoring for. The fuse sputtered...
Thus, in a 70-mile arc of flame and steel, had the soldiers of Red Marshal Georgi K. Zhukov, Stalin's designated conqueror of Berlin, come up to the outskirts of the Nazi capital. They had left behind, on the roads and fields back to Küstrin and Schwedt, thousands of dead German soldiers, more thousands of prisoners, hills of wreckage. In five days they had fought through five defense belts, smashing down a great concentration of enemy tanks in what may have been the war's biggest battle of armor. Now they could pierce the heart...