Word: pour
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bulge and were out for meat. Major General Hugh J. Gaffey's 4th Armored Division (Third Army)* had been given a task of exploiting to do after the Kyll River had been bridged near Trier. Its tankmen and motorized infantrymen were given rations for ten days, ordered to pour on the coal and get to the Rhine...
Author Maurras himself had predicted: "L'Académie est trop grande dame pour m'exclure-The Academy is too great a lady to expel me." Maurras was right. The 20 Academicians put their heads together. Immortal Maurras, they reasoned, had lost his "national dignity." Therefore, his colleagues gravely decided, they did not need to expel him: his seat was already vacant. Then, with greater haste than they had ever shown, the 20 Immortals turned back to the pressing problems of the word...
...cette guerre! This war! Et - brrrrr! This frrreezing cold! Never had Paris been so cold. Never had it been so hard to be -well dressed in Paris as it was last week. But pride must bear pain. "II jaur souffrir pour etre belle." At the famed House of Worth, the main salon beyond the double doors was empty...
...cette guerre! This war! Et - brrrrr! This frrreezing cold! Never had Paris been so cold. Never had it been so hard to be well dressed in Paris as it was last week. But pride must bear pain. "Il jaur souffrir pour étre belle." At the famed House of Worth, the main salon beyond the double doors was empty...
...infantry still running, naked and terrible in the sun. It is only slightly more than 100 yards they have to go in the open, and through our telescopes we can see them darting across in ones and twos, leaping into trenches. Everybody in the OP is yelling as they pour in. Some of them drop, spring up again, dash from shattered stump to shattered stump. Then nobody can be seen and Jap mortars blanket the entire position from behind the ridge...