Word: pavements
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...roller overturned, plowed up the pavement in a 9-ft. skid on its back, ground to a stop. Solt, his right leg bruised and his back sprained, crawled to the roller, closed the shut-off valve on the high-pressure fuel tank. Then he was carried home, to the six boys and four girls he had not forgotten...
...enough for Officer Westgate. He took up the study of jujitsu. By the time he'd perfected 104 grips he was transferred to a dark river front beat, even tougher. Hooligans learned to respect the man who whirled them casually about his head, crashed them to the pavement, piled them neatly under his knee. Officer Westgate, a thoughtful man, decided that women, too, should be able to protect themselves; specifically that his wife Violet (weight, 114 Ib.) should be able to repel mashers. "No," said Violet, "I'd rather scream." "You must," said Officer Westgate, flipping her headlong...
...light of the flaming Fuhrer, Lyford protested with all his strength against his wardens. Decoated and exhausted, the prisoner writhed on the spark-strewn pavement, striving to get loose and settle the score with the suicide squad...
...three tanks, more armored cars, 42 light tanks, 18 medium tanks, another big batch of armored cars, trucks carrying pontoon bridges, kitchen trucks, trucks drawing six-inch guns, eight truckloads of anti-aircraft guns-the machines of war. They went by fast-15, 30, 40 miles an hour. The pavement shook. The afternoon air thickened and blued with gasoline fumes...
Under the pavement of bomb-battered St. Paul's Cathedral this week, the skull & bones of ironic John Donne might have leaned backward with a lipless grin. After some 300 years, Ernest Hemingway's best-selling novel, For Whom the Bell Tolls (whose title and magnificent motto are by John Donne), had made Preacher-Poet Donne a bestseller. U. S. customers could not buy a volume of Donne's works for love or money...