Word: lethally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mexican-born, merchants for bombs, grenades, guns, other lethal wares of war, the Miranda Bros, were jailed in 1940 for selling munitions destined for Bolivia in violation of an arms embargo in the Gran Chaco War. Never idle, even in jail, the Mirandas arranged to handle sales for the Hayes Manufacturing Co. (airplane parts) of Grand Rapids, Mich. They got Hayes an order for parts from Brewster Aeronautical Corp. Their own commission was 5%. Out of jail, they joined Partner Zelcer in their Manhattan office, and arranged with Brewster to handle the sale abroad of its Buffalo fighters. They operated...
...Blood." Wondering for the first time whether he really did have any blood, Vag was interrupted by another lady who called, "Number 56? Please follow me." He was led to a desk where a nurse took his temperature and pulse, then swabbed his finger with alcohol. Producing a lethal little instrument resembling a fountain pen, she placed it on his finger and released the catch. Vag gave a little yelp as a pinpoint suddenly pierced his skin, and the nurse squeezed out a little blood onto a plate. "Thank you," she said, "and now would you go over there...
...name: Roger), a magnificent half-Bengal, half-Sumatran tiger who is out to get Mowgli (Sabu, the young Hindu who starred in Elephant Boy). The ominous supporting cast includes some 2,000 animals, birds and reptiles-notably a slinky black panther (Bagheera) with a sinister propensity for sharpening his lethal claws on tree limbs, an enormous python (Kaa, who had to be controlled with a blow torch), and a very unpleasant cobra...
...that nightmare of noise and flame, Old Buck kept her lethal bow shoved tight against her objective, while her crew swarmed ashore to battle its way to the gunboats ready to speed home. Many a Commando was left ashore; few of Old Buck's crew got away. Those who did escape heard, as they swept out of St.-Nazaire, the resonant boom of Old Buck blowing...
...Lethal five-inch guns aboard our 'tin cans' [destroyers] opened up while the raiders still were thousands of yards away. All the time our fighters were darting in & out. One flustered raider unloaded a stick of bombs at least a mile from any objective...