Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hallowed be Thy name-Blast that - at 12 o'clock...
...main highway, No. 6, curves sharply and passes around the base of Mt. Cassino, the Germans held the Hotel Continental, somewhat protected from Allied artillery by the lee of the hill. Its roof is gone, and its heavy, pastel-tinted walls have been scored by shellfire and bomb blast, but from the dark empty sockets of its windows German guns spit with terrible effectiveness. Once the hotel was nearly captured: the Germans holding it surrendered. During an explosive bombardment the hotel filled up again with green-clad German paratroopers. Three German tanks fired from the lobby, occasionally sallying forth...
...Gosh, When I Tell 'Em." War-hardened U.S. and British correspondents seemed more impressed than Dr. Imbo. No man-made scene of battle and destruction had shaken them so verbally. They wrote: ". . . incredibly awesome. . . . The great lambent tongue on the mountainside . . . some giant blast furnace suddenly gone berserk. ... A moving, burning coalyard ... a torrid, gluey mass ... a gigantic, grey-and-orange glowworm. ... All the freight cars in the world had hauled cinders from all the steel mills ever built and dumped them. . . ." But a G.I. corporal from Indiana topped them all. Said he, as he watched Vesuvius in action...
...last week. The field, with barrage ballons loafing palely overhead in the springtime sky, was London's White City Stadium. There were no cheerleaders, chrysanthemums, furry beauties or meandering drunks; but there was plenty of color. The crowd of 55,000 uniformed men & women heard a U.S. band blast out the Stars and Stripes Forever and the Notre Dame Victory March, and Canada's musicians, in a dozen different tartans, shook the air with the skirling of 112 massed bagpipes...
Some of the Nips embraced death with a song on their lips, "Deep in the Heart of Texas," which gave wry satisfaction to the Texas cavalrymen who killed them. The survivors of the blast of U.S. fire ended it all by hugging grenades and pulling the pins. Said an American general veteran of the last war, "the strangest thing I have ever witnessed...