Word: gutsing
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The Plane. SAC's complicated and outsize bombers demand ice-cold thinking, endurance and guts from the men who fly them. The Consolidated Vultee B-36, a cigar-shaped aerial monster, is LeMay's blue-ribbon flying warship. It costs $4,700,000 before it ever gets off...
"I never saw men with so much guts," said Marine Brigadier General Edward Craig, as he watched through his glasses. Craig's hand trembled slightly, but his mouth was as determined as the thin line of marines on the forbidding face of the ridge.
So Much Guts. As the Marines advanced down the valley toward the ridge they were met with a hail of fire. From the left rear came the angry eruption of a machine gun. Then another machine gun opened from the valley floor to the right rear as the marines started...
Craig, a cold-eyed fighter, but a kind and sensitive man, tried not to look at his torn kids. Finally he said, with sad pride: "I haven't heard one of the wounded cry. These marines have got more guts than I have. We'll take this piece...
The marines proved they had plenty of guts. They held their ground until, in November, the resurgent Navy under "Bull" Halsey finally drove the Jap warships out of the area and put 2nd Marine Division and Army reinforcements ashore. Among Americans, Guadalcanal has become a household word, as familiar as...