Word: hailed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then one of the battalions, its ranks refilled with battle-green replacements, tried again. Once again a hail of Jap fire pinned the troops to the ground. But this time one soldier just kept walking and throwing hand grenades at every Jap he saw. He was Pfc. Clarence B. Craft, a sandy-haired 23-year-old from Santa Ana, Calif., eight months in the Army and brand-new to combat...
What the hell sense does that make?" The Colonel's Cigars. Leipzig had 1,000 ack-ack guns, but they caused surprisingly little trouble. Most were captured intact. Nevertheless a hail of small-arms fire, and some shells from 88s and 105s, met the 2nd and 69th Infantry Divisions fighting their way in. The doughboys mopped up resistance, except for a nest of Germans, including the garrison commander holed up in the huge, red granite "Battle of the Nations" monument (a memorial to the defeat of Napoleon by a Prussian-Austrian-Russian-Swedish coalition...
Lionel Johnson. Oscar Wilde said that any morning at eleven o'clock you might see Lionel Johnson come out very drunk from the Café Royal, and hail the first passing perambulator. Santayana met this young poet at Oxford. Johnson looked 16, was small, pale, with small, sunken, blinking eyes, sensitive mouth, pale brown hair, and rebellious ideas. He kept a jug of whiskey on the table between two books-Leaves of Grass and Les Fleurs du Mai-and planned to become a Catholic as soon as he was of age. He became an Irish rebel instead. When Santayana...
...planes came to the Superfortresses as they droned in on their fixed bomb-run courses over the Mitsubishi engine plant at Nagoya and the Musashino-Nakajima factory in a Tokyo suburb. The big planes met them with a hail of fire, shot down 136. The remaining 37 fell to the Mustangs, which had to chase their prey. Five U.S. bombers and two fighters were lost...
...Benes drove under innumerable victory arches decked with his and Stalin's portraits. His careful eye noted the slogans everywhere: "Glory and gratitude to the liberating Red Army! Hail to our liberator, Marshal Stalin...