Word: hit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...industry adjusted themselves to wartime conditions. Thousands of maids and nurses lost their jobs, now that so many families were dislocated. Small factories shut down in fear of bombs, although many, particularly in the garment trade, are reopening as a result of the war boom in uniforms. Hardest hit were typists, stenographers, clerks, sacked when firms folded up or skeletonized their staffs as they deserted the big towns. Shopgirls getting 30 to 40 shillings a week were dropped by the hundreds because with evacuations retail trade slumped badly. In London, Selfridge's had to let 1,000 go, John...
...Germans claimed they made not one but two raids, both successful. On one occasion, 14 German bombers, unattended by fighters, spotted a squadron of battleships and cruisers accompanied by an aircraft carrier. Upon the carrier the Germans dropped one 1,100-lb. German air torpedo. Two 550-pounders hit a battleship on the prow and amidships. The carrier was "destroyed" (they did not say "sunk"), the battleship "crippled." On another raid next day they flew to the Isle of May at the mouth of the Firth of Forth. There they struck the bow of a British cruiser (Washington Treaty...
...Churchill's office retorted to the first German claim: Yes, a formation of German bombers had passed over a squadron of British warboats which were escorting home a disabled British submarine. The Nazis dropped bombs, but hit nothing. British high-angle guns and planes from a carrier shot down one bomber, injured another, forced a third to alight so that its crew was captured. The Isle of May story, said the Admiralty, was "another version of the North Sea lie" and probably referred to the fact that a Nazi bomber had plunked that day at a British destroyer...
Editor Mencken printed it. Weaver received $11.25. Year and a half later, Weaver published a book of verse written in the same lingo, which went through seven printings in its first year. Weaver followed this smash hit with three books of verse; but their novelty progressively dwindled, and so did their popular appeal...
Watson claims that if the display taken place during the day time, "We'll just be out of luck." In that case the next sky display will not take place until 1946 when the earth may hit the comet of which these meteors are only the tall...