Word: bellows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shouted battlefield orders in a bellow that rattled the Halls of Montezuma. He stalked about under enemy fire as though he were daring anyone to hit him. He had an abiding love for the enlisted man who did the killing and the dying, and a sneering hatred for the staff officer who did the sitting and the meddling. He thrived on combat until he became a legend to his troops-the toughest fighting man in the whole United States Marines. His name was Lewis Burwell ("Chesty") Puller, and when he was retired in 1955 as a lieutenant general...
...equivocation; certainly he was the most American poet. From its publication in 1855, Leaves of Grass has been acknowledged by convert or critic as signaling something new and distinctively American. It has been an emancipation proclamation for later generations of U.S. writers as apparently diverse as Thomas Wolfe, Saul Bellow, Henry Miller, James Agee and Jack Kerouac-and for writers anywhere who have felt inhibited by form and classic restraint. Whitman tapped a gusher, and no one reading the letters can doubt that he knew just what he was doing. To a correspondent he gleefully quoted a derisive squib from...
...whiffed spirits of ammonia to clear her head ("Cigar smoke always gives me a headache, and there's lots of cigars here") and again won by 10 yds. In the final. Wilma came off the blocks a split second behind the field. Then, as an appreciative, hoarse male bellow swept through the Garden, Wilma turned on her speed with 30 yds. to go and won as she pleased. Her time of 6.9 sec. tied the world record she herself had set last month in Los Angeles...
...memory about players-friend and foe alike-in all baseball. "He's a genius," said Leo Durocher. "It's unfair to compare other managers with him." Casey was a fighter. Punching at the air, he would poise in defiance on the top step of the dugout and bellow angry encouragement at his team. Lifted by Casey, the Yankees won ten pennants in twelve years, took seven World Series. Not until Pittsburgh's Bill Mazeroski hit a home run in the last of the ninth of the seventh game did Casey's Yankees lose the 1960 World...
...autumn of 1954, and the U.S. was hard-crashing a life-or-death program: the development of a rocket that could bellow into space, span oceans and continents, plunge down through the atmosphere and deliver an H-bomb payload anywhere on the earth...