Word: blew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jungle by way of a narrow stream. A sniper's bullet hit Lecorche's second in command, and when Communist machine guns and automatic rifles opened up from both sides, Lecorche's tanned, half-naked young French sailors answered with .so-caliber machine-gun fire, blew the Communists out of the trees and mud emplacements...
...more, blending the heroic and the ironic. They tell of how Pharmacist's Mate Wheeler B. Lipes of the Seadragon performed the first submerged appendectomy, a success "with the help of God and a long-handled spoon"; of how the Barb's commandos landed in Japan and blew up a train; of how the Sargo heartbreakingly fired 13 torpedoes at fat targets, only to have all 13 prove duds (flaws in the exploder mechanism plagued U.S. subs for two years); of how the Gato fetched up with an unexploded depth charge on its deck, and gingerly...
...dark of Thursday morning the Reds almost made it. One Chinese threw a dud grenade into a G.I.'s foxhole, then walloped him with a rifle. The G.I. clubbed the Chinese to death with his Garand. Red engineers blew a hole in the barbed wire with a bangalore torpedo. As Chinese infantry charged in, Sergeant Stewart Oshell's machine-gunners opened up, and 78 enemy bodies plugged...
Motive for the crime: revenge. Tamburlani blew up Gualtierotti because the heel-clicking captain had seduced Tam-burlani's fiancee, then cast her off. The girl killed herself...
...born in 1759, in an Ayrshire clay cottage built by his tenant-farming father. Within a week, the roof blew in on little Rab (no one ever called him "Bobbie"). He was too young to interpret the omen, but father Burns had a flair for failure. At nine, Rab was taken out of the little parish school and put to work on the farm. When he died at 37, it was the rheumatic heart acquired in youth not drink, that killed him. He once described his life as "an uphill gallop from the cradle to the grave...