Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tails of 300 foxes and loosed them in the fields of the Philistines) has been developed in World War II to a fearsome degree. At the beginning of the war, both sides relied mainly on thermite and magnesium-filled bombs. Such bombs, as every air-raid warden knows, burn with terrible fury but are comparatively easy to put out if attacked in time...
Main reason for the switch in tactics (from high-level, daylight bombing to medium-level, night bombing): it is more economical to burn out a sprawling area of small industry and homecraft war production than to bomb it out with high explosives. The fire-bomb technique is not infallible: less than two square miles of Nagoya burned in the first assault, and the job had to be done again a week later-with better results. Daylight bombing with big demolition bombs is still the prescribed dose for heavy industry, big arsenals, dockyards and the like. In future, the Japs (already...
...dream came true last week for U.S. Army aviators: they got their chance to loose avalanches of fire bombs on Tokyo and Nagoya, and they proved that, properly kindled, Japanese cities will burn like autumn leaves...
...better keep a fire extinguisher handy because this is going to burn you up. You had a lot of nerve writing what you did about Errol Flynn (TIME, Feb. 12). The only reason I take TIME magazine is because our teacher makes us. I wasn't the only kid that got mad over that article...
...springtime does getcha frustrated an ya get the spring fever an bad. So we letcha in on a little sedret--join the comp! Sure, Mike, we can't guarantee you'll forget the days of saddle shoes and gas to burn; we're makin ya no promises, but we think we got something here that will help ya out. Ya've all had the urge for the roar of the presses and the smell of hot copy--as we say in journalese--an this is the place to come. If printer's ink is whatcha want...