Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They scream we don't understand them when they come home. We don't know what it's like to see our buddy shot down in flames or ripped to pieces with a shell burst. How in hell could we know...
...great hurricane of 1938 had burst upon the coast almost without warning, killed 500 people, and left a half-billion dollar litter of wreckage behind. But the meteorologists of 1944 had sharpened their science in war, and the radio and the press had forewarned people in the hurricane's path...
...France, in a spontaneous burst of struggle and liberation, a nation had been reborn. In Paris last week a much more difficult feat of political obstetrics was taking place-a government for the reborn nation was trying to come to life. Charles de Gaulle had settled down in the old War Ministry on the rue St. Dominique...
Excursions & Alarms. Dunkirk was only a time of frustration and false alarms for the Canadians. They were waiting, in England, to take their places in the Anglo-French line when Hitler's hordes burst into the Low Countries and northern...
...have a married daughter, and a 21-year-old son, Peter, who is a lieutenant with the Canadians in Italy. Crerar pere was in Italy when he got the call to replace McNaughton in London. He could not tell Peter he was leaving, but-he admitted in a rare burst of confidence to a correspondent-he "gave his hand an extra squeeze...