Word: pea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sailor knew what he wanted. "Where's your silk scarves?" A Chinese clerk got some out. The sailor pawed through them and took another drink. Then he wobbled across the room to the fur counter, with clumsy furtiveness stuffed a piece of fur under his heavy pea jacket and moved back to the silk...
...chested, battered carrier hero, exec of the Yorktown at Coral Sea and Midway, Captain of the twice-Kamikazed Ticonderoga, who remained on the bridge for eleven hours directing damage-control operations after he had absorbed 65 bomb-fragment wounds; when his twin-engine plane crashed near Beacon, N.Y. in pea-soup...
...Bloch held four (including command of the 14th Naval District), and a many-hatted Rear Admiral P. N. L. Bellinger held six. "Under such circumstances," said the Board, "The Army had a difficult time in determining under which of the three shells (Kimmel, Bloch or Bellinger) rested the pea of performance and responsibility...
...tool (until now a military secret) is a tube which looks like a pea shooter. It has a waterproofed electrode which heats metal electrically to 6,000-10,000° F., and a jet which shoots a stream of pure oxygen, slicing rapidly through the molten plate...
...alive and unhurt after so many days when I woke up in the morning wondering if I would be dead before night." But as soon as he heard of the attack he headed back toward the battles. He was with General Vandenberg all through the terrible days when the pea-soup fog kept our tactical air force grounded, finally got back to the front with General Patton's men east of Bastogne...