Word: holing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When night came Bill Hippie of the A.P. and I dug a fox hole in the sand and tried to sleep...
Ration Point. In Chicago, William H. Jones looked out his window, saw his dog frozen on point, followed directions, found a hole in the ground, dug up a pound of butter...
...Whenever an X-ray plate or the bone itself shows any sign of damage to the skull's outer shell, a small, exploratory burr hole should be made at that spot. Reason: a blow which causes a slight bruise on the skull's outer shell often causes a serious fracture of the inner shell. In one case, where only a threadlike crack showed on the surface, a bit of the skull's inner shell had been driven almost an inch into the brain...
...crew looked over the side. Just below the gunner was a hole 9 ft. by 3. At the moment of the first attack a torpedo had passed clean through the Who, Me?'s bow. Below decks one of the crew found a torpedo's two-foot fin and rudder of fine stainless steel -it had sheered off the toilet seat from the crew's "head" and lodged in the crew's quarters...
Pershing also stood for his own tactics: an American Army must be made ready to fight a war of movement, and the hell with this hole-in-the-ground kind of thing. He was a sound tactician and had studied his books; he stood up to British and French veterans who had forgotten their early lessons. French commanders incredulously watched U.S. soldiers spread chicken wire over barbed-wire entanglements and storm the trenches of the Boche. "You Americans have longer legs and bigger feet," said a French general, shaking his head...