Word: battering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week. Bombers from Britain were over France and the Low Countries; over Czecho-Slovakia, East Prussia, the Baltic seacoast, southern and northwestern Ger many; over factories making planes, tanks, dyes, submarine parts, aircraft motors, artillery, ammunition. Russian four-motored bombers roared out of the dark ness over Poland to batter the power stations and railroad centers at Königsberg, in East Prussia; and the machine-tool plants, warehouses, chemical factories and shipyards at Danzig on the Baltic...
...league baseball last week got ready to open its 1943 season in the mood of tempered optimism of a batter running out a three-bagger with two out and a cross eyed player next at bat. Columnist Damon Runyon quoted odds of 9-to-5 that the major leagues would not be able to play out their 1943 schedules. Already some 225 of last year's 400 major leaguers had gone into the services. Nobody, not even Manpower Boss Paul V. McNutt, knew how soon local draft boards would call the elderly and ailing ballplayers still left...
...Diamond is one of the brightest legends in the legend-studded Marine Corps. Accuracy is his passion. He likes to talk about a baseball game at Tientsin in 1934, when a Marine batter hit a line drive that killed a sparrow in flight. In this accident he sees a higher goal for precision marksmen. His other passions are beer, which he guzzles by the case when it is available, and Marine recruits. Youngsters in the Marine Corps fear the grey-maned giant as much as they respect...
Last week Lou Diamond's friends at San Diego did not know exactly where he was. One report had him somewhere in the South Pacific, wearing a grey beard, trying to figure out how to hit an airplane with a mortar shell. Lou never could forget that batter who brought down the sparrow...
...From the Middle East, where Allied bombers pounded Hitler's African outpost at El Aghéila, U.S. Liberators set out for the second time in two weeks to batter Naples. Since the crippling of Genoa the Axis depot for supplies to Tunisia has been the city of the superstitious Neapolitans. The Italian High Command admitted "heavy damage in the harbor area and in the center of the town," reported 57 dead, 138 injured...