Word: laden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this month over 30 heavily laden planes rumbled off rough, badly lighted fields in Labrador, winged across 800 miles of stormy water to secret airfields in Greenland. All records later flopped when 60 round trips were made in three days...
...opening the first full scale summer session in the College's three centuries, the new Freshmen, several accompanied by their girls, fathers, or mothers, went through the mill with a minimum of difficulties, and survived the gauntlet of salesmen from the Lampoon to the laundry representatives, and finally emerged laden with free copies and blotters...
Long-range Army bombers could fly from Hawaii and Johnston Island, refuel and load bombs on Midway, then join the struggle. Or they could fly laden from Hawaii, expend their gasoline and bombs wherever they found Jap warships, then land on Midway if that were possible. If not, they could come down at sea. This was war. This was the kill...
...barges, again laden, made off to their mother ships. One of the naval-escort vessels ran aground on a sandspit, survived a curtain of German fire. One of the barges put back toward the shore to look for missing stragglers, found none, then loosed a last burst of Bren-gun fire at the Germans. Dawn was rising when the party turned home to England...
...British Admiralty announced last week that a British submarine in the Mediterranean had sunk "four more heavily laden Axis supply ships." The British admitted some months ago that for every ship which was sunk, at least one got through. And since Malta has been pounded daily by Axis bombers, the proportion is probably larger. The sinking of four ships suggested that the Axis is determined to keep Field Marshal Erwin Rommel up to attack strength, even though North Africa is already beginning to swelter in its unbearable summer heat...