Word: exhaustingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wave came over, bomb fragments wounded a pilot and two mechanics in a trench flanking the runway. An A.V.G. doctor lugged the pilot to a jeep and drove it across the field to a hospital, with Jap bullets chasing him in the dust like puffs from his own exhaust pipe. One of the mechanics died. In an ambulance plane the pilot and the other mechanic were carried over the mountains to Calcutta...
Casual inspection at this time revealed that the choke and throttle rods had been improperly connected so that it was impossible to run the motor, and that the damaged engine heads were leaking exhaust gas and anti-freeze. Furthermore, an external part was found missing from the air-cleaner assembly, and was later discovered in Snell's shop...
...going, the arguments were all proof of that. Reporters in general agreed on the main points -that the people were doing what was necessary, that they showed little excitement about the war. Cars were being put away, tires were being given up (Cleveland and Chicago did not exhaust their quotas), busses and streetcars were taking the place of taxis. The lack of outward expressions of excitement was so obvious a fact that all sorts of theories were developed to explain it. It was because the U.S. still viewed the war as a spectacle, said Edward Murrow, CBS commentator, winding...
...Singapore, at the doorway to the Indian Ocean and the China Sea; Rangoon, where the road forks to India and China; Java's strong points; Australia's port, Darwin.* Even if Singapore falls, if the others are held, the Allies will still have their precious chance to exhaust the Jap to deny him control of the Pacific and Indian Oceans...
...between eight and 13. Japanese carriers are small, with space for from 24 to 60 planes, compared with U.S. carriers' 80 to 100. They are fast, running to 30 knots. And they are daringly designed, with no island above the flight deck and funnels aimed astern like huge exhaust pipes...