Word: barrelers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Assistant Superintendent W. S. Neil knocked & knocked at the Scott door. He got no answer. Breaking in, he stumbled over an assortment of bloody articles: an ax, a hammer, two butcher knives, a shotgun barrel-and James Scales's discarded clothes. The bodies of Superintendent Scott's dying wife and dead 19-year-old daughter lay on the floor...
...chorus of Roll Out the Barrel the Valencia lumbered over the Italian fort. Fuses were lighted with cigarets, but there was almost disaster when the bomb stuck in the door. Finally the crew, their backs braced against the fuselage, managed to get the bomb away. The Valencia lurched crazily as the fort, squarely hit, disappeared in a cloud of smoke...
...packed twelve divisions, of which six were Panzer (armored) or Panzer Grenadier (motorized with some armor), and six were top-notch infantry. Practically all their known mobile reserves on this front-eight or ten divisions-were believed to be lurking behind. The Berlin radio announced that units of the barrel-bottom Volkssturm or Home Army had been thrown in on the Western front; very few of these pathetic specimens, wearing distinctive arm bands, had been encountered on the fighting lines. Substandard Wehrmacht troops were captured in fixed positions during the first shock of the attack, but as the battle wore...
Ever since he came to the U.S. Senate in 1917, Tennessee's bulb-nosed Kenneth Douglas McKellar has kept an unwavering eye on the pork barrel. Last week his colleagues discovered that Kenneth McKellar had raised his sights. Still peering sharply for old-fashioned patronage, he began a cloakroom campaign to become Senate President pro tempore-a position which Virginia's able, venerable, but ailing Carter Glass will abandon when the 79th Congress convenes...
Flying the new CinCLant's flag was a brand-new four-star Admiral: barrel-chested Jonas Howard Ingram, Medal-of-Honorman and onetime Navy fullback, who had served a long tour fighting submarines and running diplomatic errands among the Latin Americas as Commander of the Fourth (South Atlantic) Fleet. He had done so well at both jobs that no Navyman begrudged hurricane-voiced, gregarious Jonas Ingram his new star and his job in the Navy's most important sea command outside of the Pacific...