Word: laden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...squat little guns on either side of the quarter-deck sent TNT-laden depth charges hurtling into the dark sea. Then another burst, and another. The ship's stern bucked like a blooded stallion. From the sea came a lightning flash and muffled thunder, then the water fountained. The next and the next charges were deeper, making the sea boil and rumble...
Addis Ababa is a mixture of the old and the new. British officialdom marches jauntily about the Italian-built offices. Masses of unemployed move aimlessly about the streets. Flea-bitten donkeys mourn past, laden with Ethiopian ladies under umbrellas. Occasionally a slicked-up Ethiopian sport in an appropriated, yellow Alfa-Romeo roadster splits the crowds...
...April 16, 1941 Reporter O'Donnell sent his papers a dispatch which they printed next day and which said: "Charges that battlecraft of the Navy and Coast Guard are now giving armed escort to munition-laden British merchantmen leaving Atlantic ports exploded . . . tonight." Next day the strongly pro-New Deal Record printed an editorial saying: "A few hours after the [O'Donnell] story appeared, the President denounced it as 'a deliberate lie.' . . . John O'Donnell is a Naziphile. ... On numerous occasions, to all friends and barflies within hearing, he has broadcast his sympathy with most...
...Road became a cloud of dust by day, reeking with the stench of hot metal and gasoline. Bumper to bumper, crawling at five miles an hour, humping along at 25, went outsize lorries, gasoline and water transports, trailers laden with tanks, ten-ton Whites, ten-ton Macks, three-ton Fords and Chevrolets (75% of the wheeled traffic was U.S.-made), staff cars, jeeps, moving westward, returning eastward for more supplies...
Members of the two ROTCs will participate in the solemn and tradition-laden procession which will start off the ceremony on Sunday morning at 10:15 o'clock. Unit commanders have been given supplies of tickets, which they will distribute to their men in time...