Word: hurl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Robinson and his four staffers are as casual about battle dangers as a weekly's reporter covering the Sunday-school cake sale. Sample reportage: "Staff Sergeant Oscar Duebec pulled the pin from a grenade he was about to hurl with his right hand when he was wounded in the left hand. Perplexed, he decided to walk to the aid station, keeping the grenade immobilized by continuing to grasp the lever in his right palm. Anxious medics hurriedly stitched the wound, whereupon Duebec walked back . . . relieved everyone by chucking the grenade into enemy positions...
Wake was only one point in the long perimeter, from the Kuriles to the Solomons, where the admirals could hurl their giant weapon...
Berg Will Hurl...
...volcano erupted. John Lewis roared: "When you call me a demagogue before I can reply I hurl it back in your face, sir. When you ask me are the coal miners hungry I say yes, and when you call me a demagogue I say you are less than a proper representative of the com mon people of this country. . . ." Snapped Chairman Truman: "We don't stand for any sassy remarks. I don't like that remark to a member of this com mittee...
...battle, but carnage. The men who made war had devised firepower so great that they no longer understood it, and so they had gone to earth like animals, in trenches 500 miles long. When the Americans joined the war, all the Allies wanted was more infantry-more men to hurl against the enemy. Foch wanted to spread these men along the whole front; Pershing fought to build an American Army, and succeeded. "This," says General Fuller, "was not only a victory for Pershing, but also for the Allied cause, for had the readjustment proposed by Foch been agreed upon...