Word: barkings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...midnight last week three German planes were spotted skimming low off England's southeast coast. Soon antiaircraft guns began to bark up & down the shore. A heavy Heinkel bomber, her belly freighted with mines, was squarely...
...heart beat. My hand shook a little. Suppose that he were one of those sharp, kindly-savage Americans who bark like dogs, sit in their shirt sleeves, curse and swear, chew the damp stubs of cigars." It is, however, only Alfred Noyes. But the novelist's journalistic boss turns up soon enough, steers him around to see the Pope lying in state, coaches him on how to open his articles with a bang...
Norway ordered a blackout of every lighthouse on her coast. Into the Oslo Fjord steamed four warships-German. Norwegian coast defense batteries went into action and residents of Oslo fled to their cellars as they heard the door-slamming of the pieces and the bark of the naval guns in reply...
...robs the soul of a nation, how it makes it abject and hungry in peace and proves it base and abominable in war. ... If the light of freedom which still burns so brightly in the frozen North should be finally quenched, it might well herald a return to the Bark Ages when every vestige of human progress during 2,000 years would be engulfed...