Word: haltings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Front in our blood. Shells whistle, our senses sharpen. We feel the animal in us. we want to hide in the earth. An uncertain red glow spreads along the skyline before us. Great heavies boom like an organ. Smaller shells howl, pipe, hiss. Searchlights sweep the dark sky, halt, quiver on a black insect? the airman. He falls. A bell rings?Gas! I remember the gas patients coughing out their burnt lungs in clots. I don my mask. Like a big, soft jellyfish the gas floats...
...late Sunday evening; an automobile containing a man and his wife with their small child beside them is driving leisurely home from a Sunday holiday. Two men with sawed off shot guns step from the bushes and order the vehicle to halt. Thoughts of highway robberies, his family, a hundred dollars in his pocket, who knows what flash through the mind of the man at the wheel. Confused he hesitates before applying the breaks. Two shotguns blaze out, twenty-six slugs strike the side of the car, and the driver crumples over into his wife's lap, dead. Such...
...Lampooners tried hard to halt the tremendous onslaught of terrific clouting which the team from 14 Plympton Street uncorked, but even the old, but able Robert Leader "Lefty" Lampoon was unable to stop the barrage of base hits which rained down from the bats of the CRIMSON cohorts...
Canute has tried again to halt the sea. And perhaps Iowa is far enough away from it to enable him to do so. The Canute in question is Dr. T.T. Shields, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Des Moines University, who has fired his entire faculty for modernistic views. This is the second purging of sin from the Baptist institution, from which all evolutionists and geologists were expelled two years ago. The students have responded with eggs, a protest older than Genesis...
...Esme Howard, British Ambassador, called at the State Department for information, predicted this Incident might become "serious." Rear Admiral Frederick C. Billard, Coast Guard Commandant, called the I'm Alone a "notorious rumrunner" and explained that the U.S. cutter Walcott had ordered the 150-ton two-master to halt for inspection off Trinity Shoals. The Walcott had fired a three-pounder through the I'm Alone's rigging but instead of stopping she had turned and fled, her powerful Diesel engines boosting her out of reach...