Word: laden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cossack took up his ax and called his 13-year-old grandson from a neighboring house: "Come here, grandson, and let us cut down the orchard and smash the beehives." Apple, pear and apricot trees laden with still unripe fruit fell one after another. "Pile it up in the street," the old man said. "Let anybody who wants take it, and what is left the armored tractors will crush to pulp when they come...
...Despite continual bombing by British and U.S. planes, Tobruk and Bengasi were still open ports, through which a stream of men and supplies flowed from Greece and Crete. Motor-driven lighters, laden with supplies, hugged the coast in Rommel's immediate rear, supplementing the truck convoys on land. Bombings had impeded, but by no means broken up, this front-line supply system. Nor had Allied air attack smashed the Luftwaffe's airtransport line from Crete to the African battlefront...
Before dawn His Majesty's destroyers, transports and launches, chasseurs of the Fighting French Navy, a Polish destroyer and a mile-long string of invasion barges laden with troops and tanks were off Dieppe, hidden in the night's retreating skirts...
Grubbing in the lowest strata of the "vermin" press, Attorney General Francis Biddle presented his much-laden findings to a Washington grand jury, last week got the jury to indict 27 men and one woman for conspiracy to promote revolt and disloyalty among members of the U.S. armed forces. Rounded up for a trial this autumn were some of the country's best-known and loudest rabble-rousers, anti-Semites, Anglophobes, Roosevelt-haters, defeatists, Axis agents and just plain crackpots...
Though the Germans have established at least two bridgeheads across the Don in the Tsimlyanskaya area 125 miles east and slightly north of Rostov, late dispatches said, Soviet artillery has smashed a score of pontoon bridges there, as well as sinking several score rafts and rubber boats laden with thousands of enemy troops and equipment...