Word: crawl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unusually naive concerning politics-before he crouched in a slit trench and began to think a little. The noise of H.E. shells exploding a few yards from him has awakened him from political lethargy. After we have won this war, nine million American boys are going to crawl out of their last slit trench and cast nine million intelligent votes . . . [for] strong fearless statesmanship...
...potato masher grenade into the trench. As the officer rushed away smoke rose from the trench. Then bits of dust began kicking up around the officer from a machine gun on the far flank of the trench which the officer had not been able to see. We watched him crawl back, put on his gear again and then collect his three...
Almost Human. The six machine guns "seemed to cut the column to bits. ... I could see those who hadn't been hit trying desperately to crawl up the muddy bank . . . and slipping back. ... I came back over . . . kept on cutting them to pieces until my ammunition was gone; I fired 1,890 rounds into those three or four hundred Japanese, and I don't think more than a handful escaped." Back at base, Scott christened his P-40 " 'Old Exterminator' . . . patted the gun sight affectionately [and] knew right then that this ship was almost a human...
...there is room aplenty for all kinds of live artillery practice. Gas (tear) is a maneuver hazard. Live bombs crunch. Every soldier learns to crawl under live machinegun fire 40 inches off the ground...
...pneumatic life belt brought him to the surface. Too paralyzed to swim, he was lifted and dropped by the waves. Dimly he saw the two tail rudders "sticking up out of the water like twin tombstones." At last a wave carried him in far enough so that he could crawl up on the beach...