Word: bows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There was a very nice bang at the end of the right time. Through the periscope I saw he had been hit just behind the conning tower and sank very quickly. It was quite fun; it gives you quite a kick. His stern sank lower and lower, and his bow came up out of the water, right straight up, and woof...
Jackpot tells of a beautiful girl (Nanette Fabray) who agrees to marry the winner of a huge War Bond raffle. The winner is three Marines, and it takes many dreary double-entendres and much dreary horse play to get two of them to bow...
March. In Chicago, Gilbert Hayashi explained to the police why he had. been shooting at his roommate with a bow & arrow: "I am interested in archery...
...Year did not live to take the bow. He died in Tunis, on Tarawa, at Salerno, on the blood-soaked fields around Kiev, Changsha, Kharkov. He lost his face, his limbs and his mind before flamethrowers, in the cockpits of blazing planes, in the insane shadows of the jungle. He had badly wanted to live. When he died, the world had lost one particle of its meaning. But his death added more meaning than it took: it gave the living another chance to abolish the ugly crime of war. The soldier who died was the father of the unborn future...
...pilot of U.S. Navy Liberator E for Edward, sighted Roger circling the sub, came roaring down to plant his depth charges astraddle the U-boat in face of its heavy gunfire, circled and came back for strafing. Said Lieut. Wright: "We saw a big explosion. A moment later its bow submerged and it started trailing oil. We saw a dead man in the conning tower. When we left after 75 minutes the U-boat was down at the stern and still trailing...