Word: pointblank
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...artillerymen fired pointblank into the Japs with fuses set at four-tenths of a second. They bounced their high explosive shells 50 yards in front of their guns and into the maniacal ranks. They manned their few machine guns and fired until the guns stopped from overheating. They fired their carbines until the ammunition was exhausted...
German artillery raked the battalion the rest of the day. A shell from a German 88 hit a company commander pointblank, hurled his body 60 feet. But the men clung to the hills by the bridge, awaiting reinforcements. They did not come. The regiment was trapped. That morning, while the Americans attacked toward the bridge, the Germans had taken a town far to the rear. The enemy had evidently watched the regiment's advance the night before, had skillfully moved in behind it. Parts of an armored division and a motorized division, outnumbering the Americans, had sheared through...
...Chinese had no choice but to abandon the town. Across brushlands and rice paddies, they rushed from the sheltering trees and houses of Toungoo. Jap artillery fired pointblank. The Chinese scattered, broke through to the Sittang River, waded and swam it, under constant fire. They took their losses, but they won through to the main Chinese forces in the north. For every dead Chinese on the fields and hills around Toungoo, they left four dead Japs...
...Many Utopias succeeded until they knuckled their ideals under. 2) The most successful were religious, not scientific, communisms. 3) The destiny of most was determined by the hypnotic influence of an inspired-or maniacal-leader, and changed with his death. 4) Not one dared to meet sexual problems pointblank; even bold Oneida's "complex marriage" outlawed pleasure. 5) With few, ephemeral exceptions, Utopians feared individualists as they feared...
...planes, forced to keep up a desert "guerrilla-artillery" battle, Sidi Barráni also awoke last week to find the British Fleet off shore. As the sun nosed over the desert mesas, warships nosed out of a shroud of morning haze. A moment later their guns belched salvos pointblank into the heart of the city. Observers in the warships' fire-control towers said flames leaped up, were still visible at sea two hours later. For the third time in a week the British Fleet had pounded troop concentrations along the coast. Further Italian advances along the coastal defile...