Word: hurl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dour, taciturn Brigadier General Gladeon M. Barnes, of the Army's Ordnance Department, announced that a civilian plant was being tooled up for production of the new piece. The sky-prodder is a 4.7-in. caliber cannon that will hurl shells more than 40,000 feet up-more than seven and a half miles. The range is neither theoretical nor guesswork. An adaptation of an earlier gun, the 4.7 has already been thoroughly tested...
...14th week of the war against the Fascists, the nation was in great peril. Even if the Red defenses could by sheer will power hurl back the enemy, Russia would have to start building all over again. And if the defenses failed, then there was nothing to look forward to but a world beyond imagining, in which a face was not even a face unless it was German...
...promising field event will be the shot put with the pair of powerhouses, Dick Pfister and Sophomore John Shattuck, bearing the brunt of the burden. Each has surpassed 45 feet and Tom O'Loughlin is steadily approaching it. This same trio will hurl the discus, but their record there is less assuring...
...ominous. The most terrific military force in the world, the German Army, had been idle for six months and on Christmas Eve its commander, Field Marshal Walther von Brauchitsch, visited its westernmost camps on the Channel coast. At Cap Gris Nez, near the long-range guns which sporadically hurl shells into England, he told his men: "The Channel will protect England only so long as it suits us." Führer Hitler was also at the Western Front during the holiday lull, exhorting his troops and talking darkly about mighty efforts to come...
...easy task will be that of special Attorney General O. Cassagnau, who will direct the prosecution, because unless his aim is extremely accurate, the denunciations he will hurl at the defendants may spatter Petain's Defense Minister Generalissimo Maxime Weygand, who commanded the Army during those final disastrous weeks, or even Marshal Petain himself, who was Daladier's Ambassador to Spain, Reynaud's Vice Premier. There were indications last week that the trial, coinciding with the U. S. Presidential election, might also be used at Nazi insistence to smear Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his Ambassador William...