Word: lobs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fire and the Banda . . . fade into the night. ... At 2:30 a.m. enemy firing starts in earnest. They're firing right down our lines, the peeng of their ricochets strikes me as being as funny as hell. ... In the meantime our machine guns open fire and we lob two mortar shells into the bush, and the Gold Coast add to the noise by firing rifle grenades and by the time I have made up my mind where to place myself the whole show is over and back I go to sleep...
...Martin aircraft plant. His guests were newsmen, a few Congressmen and curious Army and Navy officials. He proceeded to show them how safe Glmite was by setting fire to it, shooting a 30/30 bullet through it, firing charges of it from a trench mortar against a steel plate, lob bing a shellful in the direction of his nervous audience - who ducked behind a sandbag barricade. None of this rough treatment incited Mr. Barlow's Glmite to explode...
...report of the rush of volunteers to Finland past the French censor, the Paris bureau of the New York Times executed a neat journalistic backhand lob...