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Word: forepart (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...formation of combat-bound Flying Fortresses, over northwest Europe at 13,500 feet, there was only a moment of confusion. But it was enough. There was a collision, and one of the B-17s, with its tail cut off, spilled crazily forward. The heavy forepart plunged with its pilots, gunners and navigator. Only one bailed out. As the formation bored on, its air crews saw the tail of the mangled ship sailing erratically, like a piece of paper dropped from a skyscraper window...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: How to Wait for It | 5/7/1945 | See Source »

...Hitler needed to do was to let his whiskers sprout and sit on a nest of thunderbolts and naked swords, thinking of plague and pestilence and rapine and slaughter and slavery for the vanquished, to be a fit understudy for the vengeful, murderous Jehovah of the forepart of the Old Testament...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 20, 1944 | 3/20/1944 | See Source »

...torpedo ripped through the port side, under the bridge. It knocked out the ship's radio and power plant. In pre-dawn darkness the crew struggled with the lifeboats as the submarine opened up with its deck gun, scoring only one hit (in the Montebello's forepart) out of "eight or ten" shots. Despite strafing machine-gun fire, the 36 officers and crew pulled to safety, cursing the attackers. Said Captain Eckstrom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: AT SEA: War on U.S. Shipping | 1/5/1942 | See Source »

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