Word: blown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...woman doctor attached to the Chinese Red Cross, one day last week tried to visit her husband who teaches school in a Shanghai suburb. Japanese bombers roared overhead. Frightened, she ran, thought of hiding behind an automobile, changed her mind, jumped behind a tree. The automobile was blown to bits. Bombs burst all around her, buried her in debris. Two coats and a sweater protected her from serious injury...
Woosung was China's Verdun. Day after day Japanese warships in the river blasted away at the Chinese batteries (pausing politely to let U. S. and British steamers and warships pass). But the Chinese, for once grimly determined, held on. The redoubts of the forts were blown into heaps of muck. Three thousand Japanese bluejackets went ashore to occupy Woosung Village. No sooner did they move out against the forts than the battered trenches came to life with such a withering rifle and machine gun fire that the Japanese were forced back. Back into action went the ships...
...tunnel is the steam control room, where the pressure entering the building can be regulated. The steam is then piped to a large radiator, about eight or ten times the size of that of an ordinary house radiator, which is situated in an enclosed room. Cold air will be blown into this room, heated by the radiator, and then distributed to all parts of the chapel by a large number of branching pipes. The draught will be forced by a huge exhaust fan, which has been placed in the tower and will draw the air up through the building...
...arguing. He saw Werkheiser start opening one of the packages. . . . That was the last he knew until he found himself, in an agony of mortal pain and bloody numbness, being trundled out of the post office on a hand truck. Clerk Werkheiser, an arm and a leg blown away, was being trundled out on another truck. The post office was a wreck? bundles, letters, glass, splinters and debris hurled every which way. The two clerks, mangled and beyond recovery, managed to gasp out details of what had happened before they died. Three other clerks who were torn, cut and bleeding...
...Camotan, on a Caribbean pleasure-cruise, fretted at not being allowed to go ashore at Puerto Balboa because a revolution had just broken out there, Chief Engineer Spenlove entertained some of them with a tale. The day before. Puerto Balboa's harbormaster, Capt. Frank Fraley, had blown out his brains. That was the end of the story. Narrator Spenlove told his audience the beginning and middle...