Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army, which hopes to cut G.I. military chores to a minimum, hopes to have its sport program going full blast in 30 days. If British, French, Polish, Dutch, Australian and New Zealand troops join in as expected, the program may lead to Allied championships that will dwarf the peacetime Olympic Games...
...Major General John R. Hodge's XXIV Corps troops won and lost the ridgetop three times. The Japanese met them coming up, popping out of caves and old tombs to hurl grenades and satchel charges-heavy explosives, carried on a handle like a satchel, and usually used to blast fortifications. Japanese artillery fire pounded them while they were on top. Then Japanese infantry charged furiously with fixed bayonets and ousted them...
This was hopeless fighting for Japan. On factory walls, crumbling under the blast of 500-pound demolition bombs, they could almost read what was happening to them everywhere. Step by step General Douglas MacArthur was wresting away the Philippines. Last week his men moved south to Sanga Sanga and Bongao islands, only 30 miles from Britain's oil-rich Borneo, the island that was to have stoked Japan's factories. Bit by bit, their stolen empire was falling to ruins...
...loose. They would never forget the brilliant white flash of the explosion, the torn bodies of the dead and the numbed, blackened faces of the injured. V-2 had given no warning to those it killed or maimed, but those who had been on the fringes of its blast would never forget its sounds...
...G.I.s, a wintry, curfewed Paris seemed much gayer last week: up near the Arc de Triomphe a Stage Door Canteen -or Cabaret des Troupes Alliées-had opened and was going full blast. Inside a day or two, in fact, it was frantically yelling for more hostesses, and the orchestra, plagued by boys who wanted to dance every second, was already dying on its derri...