Word: laden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...officer told of seeing German tracers ripping through other men's parachutes as they descended. In one plane nine soldiers had dived through the plane's door; the tenth, laden with his 90 pounds of equipment, got momentarily stuck. A 20-mm. shell hit him in the belly. Fuse caps in his pockets began to go off. Part of the wounded man's load was TNT. Before this human bomb could explode, his mates behind him pushed him out. The last they saw of him, his parachute had opened and he was drifting to earth...
...took me two seconds flat to struggle out of my harness and drag my typewriter-laden frame into the hedge. There were three of us there, moving through the shadows...
...heart and mind of Britain may have been across the laden English Channel last week, but Britons did not show it. King and commoners, noble lords, grimy street sweeps went about their usual jobs. To an alien eye the most remarkable thing about Britain in invasion week was its British normality...
Parade, almost three years old, is a picture-laden, 28-page, magazine-like supplement distributed in 15 cities. It is dissociated from other Field publications, except that Chicago's Sun is a customer. Parade is unusual in two respects: 1) Editor Ross Art Lasley and his top associates (Boyd Brodhead and Harold H. Funk) have had no other newspaper or magazine experience; 2) the gravure-printed supplement gets an extreme degree of editing by its readers...
...newest addition to the already over-laden group of the Unit's Comics, is Colonel Hank Cornelius. His ad libbing has left the boys weak