Word: blows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...premeditated murder masked by a toothy smile. The Nation had taken a heavy blow. The casualties crept from rumor into uglier-rumor: hundreds on hundreds of Americans had died bomb-quick, or were dying, bed-slow...
...lazy Sunday morning. Although the Japanese attackers had certainly been approaching for several days, the Navy apparently had no news of either airplane carriers sneaking up or of submarines fanning out around Hawaii. Not till the first bombs began to fall was an alarm given. And when the blow fell the air force at Pearl Harbor was apparently not ready to offer effective opposition to the attackers...
Washington called the naval damage "serious." admitted at least one "old" battleship and a destroyer had been sunk, other ships of war damaged at base. Meanwhile Japan took to the radio to boast that the U.S. Navy had suffered an "annihilating blow." Crowed the Japs: "With the two battleships [sunk], and two other capital ships and four large cruisers heavily damaged by Japanese bombing attacks on Hawaii, the U.S. Pacific Fleet has now only two battleships, six 10,000-ton cruisers, and only one aircraft carrier...
Manila was bombed this morning at dawn by a force of Nipponese planes. Although, contrary to first reports, the Phillipine capital was not attacked in the first series of Japanese waves, it had been expecting the blow at any moment, and was not caught unawares...
Although no word has yet been received from the Navy Department, the donors confidently asserted that their ship will be used either by the Intelligence Department, or as a "suicide junk," which will be loaded with explosives and used to blow up one of the key boats of the Japanese fleet. "Or else," they said, "her cruising range of 20 miles will insure the safety of our western coast...