Word: pounder
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...holes in the runway, Geiger walked down to an SBD (Douglas dive-bomber) spotted on the apron, climbed in. Without a single escorting fighter, the Old Man took the SBD off the flight strip, flew north to a village where the Japs were headquartered, dropped his 1,000-pounder, went home. His pilots got the idea...
...Composer. Harry Ruby is the Tin Pan Alley prototype of a Horatio Alger hero. Born 48 years ago on Manhattan's East Side, he managed to get through grammar school, took a few music lessons and embarked on a childhood career as a café piano pounder and vaudeville actor. At 17 he got a job with Music Publisher Gus Edwards and wrote the first Ruby hit, When Those Sweet Hawaiian Babies Roll Their Eyes...
Idol of these happy fans is Catcher Josh (for Joshua) Gibson, a hulking 215-pounder with features vaguely suggestive of a very dark Babe Ruth. Sportswriters like Shirley Povich of the Washington Post maintain that Josh Gibson would be worth his weight in gold to any white ball club. The immortal Walter Johnson once valued Gibson...
...sized cargo vessels in Macassar Harbor and a cruiser for protection. Suddenly the sky was darkened by a flock of fat-bellied Liberators, and a rain of explosives-incendiaries to one-ton bombs-fell on town and harbor. The Wilhelmina and Juliana docks burst into flame. A 2,000-pounder cracked the cruiser squarely and billowing smoke obscured it. A cargo ship...
...will be hard pressed by some top-notch Exeter timber-toppers. Wille Fisher, the other half of Mikkola's point-winning due, is a cinch to triumph in the hammer-throw, although he will be tossing a 16 pound weight while the prep school slingers will use a 12 pounder. If he gets into trouble, however, Wille plans to make his final throw with the lighter pellet...