Word: laden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...raving nonsense. So, in one sense, it surely is, but Blackwood is almost as artful at making it seem plausible as Edgar Allan Poe. Poe's stories are mysterious and terrifying, but for the most part they can be explained in perfectly rational terms. Blackwood's, laden with monsters, ghosts, spirit voices and other fearful sights & sounds, are usually inexplicable...
...microphones. Its purpose: to listen for enemy craft, and blow them sky-high by exploding appropriate mines. For a while the minefields were quiet. Then, with spring, the microphones under an empty sea picked up an "awful racket." To some it sounded like a pneumatic drill, to others like laden freighters coming up the channel...
Life in the Navy had not changed 48-year-old Bill McGovern much, except to restock his cornucopia of anecdotes. Starchy Admiral King got indigestion every time Commander McGovern entered the room, his Byronic profile rising proudly above a pair of dandruff-laden shoulders, his uniform scarred with gravy. (In civilian life, McGovern modeled an otter fur hat by a Chinese Lily Dache at a formal dinner.) Once, smoking on Constitution Avenue, McGovern saw King coming. He stuffed the red-hot pipe into his pocket, threw King a salute-and scrambled down the street, his pants catching fire. Says...
...last July, a line of heavily laden trucks moved through gutted Tokyo's waterfront area. A group of Jap officers barked orders to bewildered laborers, who unloaded the trucks, dumped heavy metal bars into the bay. One worker overheard the officers discussing a treasure in gold, silver and platinum worth 30,000,000,000 yen ($2,000,000,000) "for use in building up a greater Japan after things quiet down...
Said a misery-laden Thomas to his union: "Maybe I didn't do a good enough job, but believe me I tried...