Word: laden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Following a long skein of sex-laden productions, the Fine Arts' latest offering is a program more in keeping with its name. The job of compressing 1000 pages of Feodor Dostoevsky's two best novels in to four hours filmfare is almost impossible, but the two features, one in French, the other in German, nearly succeed in their task...
...power-laden Crimson Varsity which will face its rivals tomorrow: Stroked by Bus Curwen, who has yet to lose a race and packed from bow to stern with veteran oarsmen, if should leave grey water between them and their nearest opponent...
Their targets were two ships lying side by side in Navarino Bay, laden with supplies for Rommel. The lead planes were almost in position. Grant Parr of the New York Times "crouched in a niche just behind the forward cabin, leaning out over the open bomb bay." It was deathly cold, but he was too excited to notice. "With a slight jar our bombs fell away, seemingly far wide of their mark. Then momentum and wind drift whipped them in toward the transports like a fast curve breaking over the plate...
...size and importance of the convoy could be judged from the fact that 75 British warships of various sizes (among them at least one aircraft carrier*) had escorted the merchantmen laden with planes, guns, tanks and ammunition. Much of the convoy was shot to pieces in a six-day running battle north of Norway, but much more of it stayed afloat...
When Private DeVoogd left on the 5:30 for Camp Dodge, the mayor of Boone was there, so was the secretary of the Chamber of Commerce and so was a crowd of gift-laden townsfolk. Said DeVoogd after the speeches: "I'm happier than I've been in my whole life...