Word: blanking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mohl jumped squarely on the first enemy; Corporal Frank Passarelli and Private Tom Boaz tackled the second; Corporal George Ickes stood up and shot the third at point blank range; Private Paul Reynolds, from behind a big rock, chopped down the last three with deft bursts from his Browning automatic rifle. Passarelli and Boaz had knocked their man cold; Mohl subdued his with a pistol butt. Back at an American outpost they radioed headquarters: "Mission accomplished, patrol returning." Sole U.S. casualty: Lieut. Mohl. His Jap had bitten him on the hand...
...problem. The Marshall Islands differ from Guadalcanal, which is an 80-mile long island with a great jungle-covered spine and coconut groves, jungles and grassy flatlands along its shores. No coral reefs guard its coast. The Marshalls, like the Gilberts, are ancient atolls - coral reefs ringing irregularly around blank and limpid lagoons. On the reef, like beads in a necklace, are occasional land masses of coral sand, large enough to support airfields and artillery installations. Hot and waterless, the Marshalls lie under the equatorial sun and dead men begin to stink very promptly. Flat and naked, the Marshall atolls...
...Fannie herself is a more absorbing character than any she ever created. Born in Hamil ton, Ohio, 54 years ago, she was taken in infancy to St. Louis, where her father owned a shoe factory. She began to write early, at 14 had submitted a masque in blank verse to the Saturday Evening Post...
...tanks, mobile guns, trucks rolled forward again, across the flatlands and icebound marshes. With blank eyes the men watched the burning enemy tanks, the sidings lined with freight cars from France, Poland, Belgium, Holland, the black-and-yellow posts marked Deutschland, planted on Russian soil by the confident Wehrmacht. With blank eyes they saw Nazi posters on charred village walls: an SS soldier hugging a husky Ukrainian woman, with happy children and goats playing in the background. They had seen such women swing from German gallows, had seen the bullet-holed bodies of such children...
Henry, aboard his destroyer in the same engagement, stood in to Tarawa's lagoon firing at almost point-blank range on Jap shore batteries. Direct hits on his ship did not discourage Henry, who blazed away with even more enthusiasm...