Word: gashes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...looked out of the window and saw a huge gash from the front porch to the dining room. I said, 'We've 'ad it.' My mate, who sleeps in the same room, said: 'We ain't 'ad it, we're still 'ere.' 'E was right. 'Twas then I saw the Union Jack still flying...
That night United's flight No. 14, Denver-bound from Boise, Idaho, vanished into the stormy dark over Wyoming. Next day, search-plane pilots glimpsed a ragged gash in the snow near the 11,000-ft. summit of Wyoming's blizzard-swept Elk Mountain. For two days, ground parties fought 75-mile-an-hour winds to reach the peak. When they did, they found flight 14, scattered over a quarter mile of rock and ice. The dead: 21. The cause: unknown...
Marine Lieut. Lawson Brammer thought he saw something dark hurtling through the Okinawa sky. Before he could duck it slapped him on the shoulder, spun him around, threw him eight feet and sent his gun flying. Then it plowed a gash in the ground, ricocheted, hit again 300 yards away and exploded. Unbruised, Lieut. Brammer had cold-shouldered a Japanese shell...
...only sounds came from little children who were wounded but not dead. . . . I saw one little boy with a big V-shaped gash in the back of his head who was walking around. A doctor told me that the child couldn't possibly live and would die any minute of shock...
...west bank, the French defenders of Strasbourg were squeezed on both sides. At week's end the French in the Belfort-Mulhouse area attempted a diversion by smacking the Colmar pocket's broad southern flank. Launched in a heavy snowstorm, this attack cut a deep gash in the enemy lines before it was slowed...