Word: gunning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crisp and sunny, but a cold wind whipped through the marble columns of the white Arlington amphitheater, riffling the rows of flags. At 11 o'clock a can non thudded out the first salvo of the slow, rolling 19-gun salute and a flag-draped caisson moved slowly up from the Arlington gate, bearing the first U.S. Secretary of Defense to a sailor's grave...
...Airport one day last week and coasted to a landing. Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson helped crewmen push a big aluminum ramp up to the plane while the rest of the Pentagon's top brass gathered round. A smartly uniformed honor guard snapped to salute, four 105-mm. guns boomed a 17-gun salute. General Lucius D. Clay hopped out and looked about him with the fixed smile and nervous glance of a man who was surprised by all the fuss. After four controversial years in Germany-two of them as U.S. Military Governor-Lucius Clay had come home...
...managed to stop them from building a gun post in the middle of the bowling green, by showing them a much better strategic position," said Mrs. Hawkings, "and I saved my bed of anchusas and the bushes of weigela and nemophila from being dug up for a trench, by showing them how to take better shelter down by the lily pond. I got them so sympathetic for my garden that they even held the flowers apart so they could thread barbed wire without breaking the blooms...
...blockade's end. On sidings were long strings of freight cars with glistening loads of Ruhr coal and machinery. There was a stir of excitement-we were pulling into the Soviet border town of Marienborn. The station swarmed with dark-uniformed, Soviet-zone police and Tommy-gun-bearing Russian soldiers. First, two German Soviet-zone policemen came into each compartment, scrutinized interzonal travel orders, noted down names & addresses. Next, two more entered and asked how many westmarks and eastmarks each passenger had. After that, two more cops came in to look through the baggage...
Meanwhile, Shanghai's Nationalist defenders continued to rule the city with a trembling iron hand. Firing squads continued public executions of fifth columnists, black marketeers and other culprits. On outlying roads, hundreds of laborers sweated to throw up machine-gun emplacements and earthworks. In the confusion, however, many of the earthworks were built facing not the Communists, but one another...