Word: buzz-bombs
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...sign in Egyptian French and English that John Phillips brought home Cairo: "Guests of the hotel as well s officers of His Majesty's Forces are requested to refrain from abusing the privilege of the lifts" -and souvenirs that are pretty grim, like the fragments of a buzz-bomb that landed almost on the doorstep of the chief of the MARCH OF TIME's London office...
...bridgework") ; ask no favors ("all we want ... is a normal life"); laugh at their own grisly-humorous "theme song," My Legs Are Getting Shorter All the Time. The most expensive and hard-hitting of radio's rehabilitation experiments, The Road Ahead has the explosive force of a buzz-bomb; it obviously shakes even the professional self-assurance of M.C. Fadiman...
This being a dinner for "company," my friends went at it with relish, despite rattling dishes and window panes, constantly shivered by V-2 and buzz-bomb blasts all around. Their eagerness to share their little with me did more to create the lump in my throat than did the thought of their plight...
...Easter holidays brought a prayerful hope to Britons: that they had seen and felt and heard the last of the Germans' devilish V-bombs. For three days and nights, up to this week, not a single buzz-bomb (V1) or rocket bomb (V2) had fallen on Britain...
...more than one-third that of the U.S., had suffered as many casualties-from its armed forces alone-as had the U.S. in three years. Britain's toll: 176,081 killed, 38,275 missing, 193,788 wounded, 154,968 prisoners of war. In addition, the blitz and the buzz-bomb had taken a toll of 57,298 killed (including 7,250 children and 23,757 women), and injured 78,818 more. No question, the bloody 'eroes...