Word: blazes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...27th and last kill to newsmen as casually as he met the high-rankers of the Air Forces who shook his hand. That day, he had been fighting so long over the Pacific that the over-heated barrels of his guns had warped. All he could do was blaze away and hope that his wildly flying bullets would hit something...
...realistic detail in a stained glass English church window may stir up almost as brisk a blaze of controversy as the destroyer detail of the window recently ordered removed from the Chapel of Our Lady of Victory at the Norfolk Naval Operating Base (TIME, April 10). The new window will be unveiled this week in St. Andrew's Church, Cransley, Northamptonshire. A cigar may touch off the fireworks. The window shows the signing of the Atlantic Charter (1941). Below the guns of the battleship Prince of Wales sit President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill, who is, as usual, smoking...
Lewis Brereton, who was graduated from the Academy in 1911 (three years after General Knerr), is also a major general. He bosses the Ninth (Tactical) Air Force, which escorts bombers over Europe, will blaze the way for invasion...
...react rather than to act: to adjust themselves to conditions not of their making-and to survive. Unlike their next-door Slav neighbors, the Poles, the Czechs never believed in having more than one superior enemy at a time, never dreamed of going down in a romantic blaze of glory. Their national history is one long, continued search for allies. To them, foreign policy is not an appendix but the core of national policy...
...another dark night Lieut. Ralph Brown led a patrol of six men with thermite grenades and wine bottles of gasoline to burn the fortified town jail. They turned the structure into a roaring inferno, but by morning the blaze had burned out, the stone walls were still standing, the Germans were back again...