Word: looms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...submarine, watched it fire two torpedoes in full view of the crew. A rescued seaman from the second ship had to swim two and a half miles, diving under patches of flaming oil, before he was picked up. >Sailors rowing away from a doomed ship saw a Swedish freighter loom up in the night, get caught in a cross-fire of shells from two subs and catch fire. As she tried to flee, the Swede almost ran the lifeboat down...
...penalized 5% per month up to a total of 25%; are also liable to a $10,000 fine, a year in jail.) These people were postponing the war, putting off the day of reckoning. When next year's taller taxes loom, they will still be whittling away at this year...
Naval and marine units occupied Iceland, which lies directly in the battlefield of the Atlantic. This act, which constituted the first U.S. plunge into cold action, was of tremendous strategic importance. It meant that a new visible weight, not just the clatter of it, was actually beginning to loom up in the west against the Germans. At the moment, it loomed not very large -but it loomed...
...fact that the U.S. has always muddled its preparations for war does not condone another such muddle. But if all these facts loom large and dark, their ultimate sum is smaller than the ultimate sum of U.S. vigor and resource...
...currently the interest at the U.T., where the Marx Brothers are appearing in a movie. "Go West," a slap-sticky effort designed to make Horace Greeley regret his advice, succeeds in amusing more often than it bores. Worth-while if only for Harpo's solo on a blanket-loom...