Word: blows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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History Made. Better fitted to take a blow from her natural enemy was the U.S.S. Kearny, a slim, 1,630-ton beauty with a battle speed of around 40 knots. Besides modern armament (including ten torpedo tubes, five 5-inch guns), the Kearny has the maximum in destroyer protection. Highly compartmented so that damage can be localized, she also has a stout double bottom to cut down torpedo damage to her inner skin...
Facts. They could say they had launched the biggest pitched battle ever fought. Acting on the fundamental Clausewitz dictum, "Concentrate the maximum of forces in the direction of the main blow," the Germans had drawn forces from both southern and northern fronts. They had thrown into this great push toward Moscow more than two-thirds of their entire infantry forces in Russia, three-quarters of their Panzer forces. Altogether the Germans were using some 1,700,000 infantrymen, 450,000 motorized troops, 14,000 tanks...
...routine, as monotonous for passengers as they are for the men who make them regularly. The only thrill comes when the plane passes the invisible point of no return, the point where it has enough gas to get across, too little to turn back against headwinds that blow from the west. The only real excitement is the landing-circling a field so well camouflaged that even experienced pilots have a hard time finding it, taxiing the plane into the line of delivered bombers whose next job is to fly over Europe with bombs in their bellies. Looking at that neat...
...esthete also kept silk worms that munched on mulberry leaves he brought from a nearby yard. He tinkered with carpenter's tools. He kept two dogs, against the school rules, and walked them at night with his friend, the town detective. Once he manufactured a time bomb to blow out a well bottom which was supposed to lead to an underground passage. When he peered down the well to see why the bomb didn't go off, it did, and young Churchill's face was badly scorched. In his last school year he won the Public Schools...
...press conference last week Argentina's Acting President Ramón S. Castillo announced that he had summarily fired the entire Municipal Council of Buenos Aires and would replace it with a hand-picked set of appointees. Loud though the explosion was, it was not loud enough to blow the Acting President out of the Casa Rosada...