Word: hammerhead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...announcement of Train's barring was affirmed by the office of W. Hammerhead Jackass. The balding booster added, "The reserve clause. It'll be a great season...
...Force. Somehow dodging air observation, the Jap landed his reinforcements in four transports at Ormoc, at the south end of the hammerhead of Leyte. Two transports were sunk by P-38 and P-40 fighter-bombers, but only after they had been unloaded. By that time fresh Jap tanks and trucks were moving up the highway from Ormoc to the front. It was still true that the battle for Leyte had been decided, but its length and its total cost were yet to be counted. Nobody believed that the Japs would fail to run true to Bushido form, fight...
...howitzers ready for loading on merchant ships, took the cheers of 40,000 workers, then moved on to the Brooklyn Navy Yard, where the super-battleships Missouri and Iowa were built, where the battered old Texas rested in dock for repairs. Driving down the bustling streets, past the giant Hammerhead Crane, the President was seen by more than half the yard's 70,000 workers. They cheered...