Word: brunt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...platoon sergeant, he put his men first, himself last. But in battle he was not self-effacing. One night in October 1942, he bore the heavy brunt of a Jap attempt to retake Henderson Field. When the 19 men in his section had been shot down, Mitch Paige hefted a machine gun, and, scribbling the night with fire, played lethal tag with the enemy. Reinforced, he led the fresh men in a counterattack. At battle's end, no Japanese lay dead before Mitch Paige's sector. Said he: "I did what I could...
...would not accept any more Brewster planes after July 1. It explained that it was cutting back fighter production $180,000,000, mainly because attrition had been only one-third as great as anticipated. Brewster was the last to get into Corsair production, produced feebly, and now bore the brunt of the cut. Brew ster also became the first U.S. planemaker to have all its war work suddenly ended...
From the Air. The infantry was getting the brunt, as usual. But it might have been worse. Behind them one of the great concentrations of artillery thundered at targets long "zeroed in" for the day. And above them worked an air-support team that doughboys were already calling "great...
...cooed: "My remarks probably creep into his drab life like a gleam of supernal sunshine. I merely want to elevate him to higher planes of thought." When Clark battled it out with Kentucky's "Happy" Chandler, Homer Bone interrupted: "I have always found them bearing themselves in the brunt of battle with the true courtesy of Arthurian knights. It is something of a shock to learn that in the mind or the heart of either there was an impish impulse for fisticuffs...
General Rodion Malinovsky's Army splashed into Kherson and on toward Nikolayev after a spectacular overnight thrust. In the flooded plain, the cavalry bore the brunt of battle. Shrewdly, Malinovsky sent a myriad of raiding units-a tank or two, tommy gunners, horsemen-into the steppe to sow panic. They did their job well: Moscow said nowhere was chaos greater than in this sector...