Word: glowworm
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Swedish astronomer, gazing through his telescope one quiet night last week, saw a luminous something-no bigger than a glowworm-appear on the horizon. Within ten seconds it had grown into a 90-ft.-long, torpedolike missile whose fiery tail spewed blue and green smoke. Said the astronomer: "I had visions of doomsday...
...Argentine Government jailed him for eleven hours, but (he wrote) "throughout . . . treated [me] with courtesy." Other foreign correspondents sneaked stories out (via Montevideo) about the oppressions of Argentine dictatorship. Reporter Cortesi argued urbanely with Argentine censors-but never once tried to by-pass them. Then, suddenly, fortnight ago, the glowworm turned...
...more impressed than Dr. Imbo. No man-made scene of battle and destruction had shaken them so verbally. They wrote: ". . . incredibly awesome. . . . The great lambent tongue on the mountainside . . . some giant blast furnace suddenly gone berserk. ... A moving, burning coalyard ... a torrid, gluey mass ... a gigantic, grey-and-orange glowworm. ... All the freight cars in the world had hauled cinders from all the steel mills ever built and dumped them. . . ." But a G.I. corporal from Indiana topped them all. Said he, as he watched Vesuvius in action: "Gosh, when I tell 'em about this in Muncie...
Monday morning the British destroyer Glowworm was proceeding with her flotilla to lay mines off the Norwegian coast when she lost a man overboard. Delayed in picking him up, the Glowworm was hurrying to overtake her companions when, northwest of Trondheim, she sighted a strange destroyer. "What ship is that?" she blinked in English. The answer was gunfire. After announcing that she had engaged an enemy destroyer, the Glowworm never reported to the Admiralty again. Several days later German sources told how the heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper had come down and sunk her during the battle - she had stumbled upon...