Word: motoring
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Motor Co. (guns and tank parts), 7,000 C.I.O. autoworkers refused to cross the line. At Yellow Truck & Coach Co. (Army trucks), 3,000 autoworkers turned back. At Baldwin Rubber Co., 600 C.I.O. rubber workers walked out. There were street fights...
Suddenly there lay the city, a narrow strip of black below us, on the very edge of the south bank of the muddy Yangtze. Butch spun the dials on his bomb sights. I heard the rumbling of an electric motor. The bomb bays were opening. I looked at the double row of little lights, numbered from one to twelve, like lights on an elevator. They were still shining brightly. The bombs had not yet been released. Haynes dipped the plane up and down, giving the signal to those behind us to attack...
...Listen to mah motor roar. Gr-r-row-owow! Now heah go another bomb. Whoo-oo-ee-ee-ee BOOM! Go ahead...
...Listen to Mah Motor...
...reaches a climax of anti-theatrics when Lieut. Thomas Wilson Boyd describes his part in the March raid on the St. Nazaire submarine base. Assigned to draw fire away from the destroyer Campbeltown, Boyd had, says he, an "easy job." All he had to do was to take his motor gunboat into the river, get in the crossbeams of the German searchlights and stay there...