Word: nesting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Every time he lifted his head machine-gun bullets whanged his helmet: before the night was over there were 30 creases in it. The Japs never stopped firing all night. Ross emptied his rifle at a gun nest and then grabbed another rifle; the other men reloaded and he fired. He figured he threw about 300 lead punches. Out of ammunition, the men in the crater crouched and prayed. At dawn the prize fighter jumped out under cover of a cloud of smoke and, "half crawling and half walking," helped get the wounded to the rear. His purse: shell shock...
Despite the axe of wartime necessity which hangs over the head of intercollegiate sports, basketball coach Earl Brown will, in a few days, approach the H.A.A. with the proposal that Harvard ho the first Eastern university to experiment with the "crow's nest" system of officiating, a much discussed innovation from out of the West...
Certainly, he continued, the competency of the referees is beyond question, since most of them have spent years on basketball floors, either as coaches, players, or arbiters. The crow's-nest may be the solution. Test conducted in such big-time atmosphere as the national intercollegiate championships at Kansas City last year showed that it eliminates several possible sources of error...
With two others (John Rivers of Philadelphia and Lee Diamond of New York), Schmid was lying mouse-quiet in a machine-gun nest on the bank of a sluggish river dividing the American-held beachhead from Jap territory. The long-expected attack came early in the morning. Said Schmid...
While the British bombed Italy by night, American Flying Fortresses kept up their steady schedule of attack on Nazi arsenals in Occupied France. They blasted targets at Brest, the Nazis' Atlantic U-boat nest, where they shot down four Nazi fighters, lost one of their own fighter escort. Next day they struck at the factory-studded area around Lille where they had already done much damage in the raid four weeks ago (TIME, Oct. 19). This week, while other Allied bombers pasted Le Havre, U.S. forces made their first raid on St. Nazaire's big submarine base where...