Word: pour
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This was hard slugging, and the crowd of 6,000 liked it. They applauded Dewey again & again; a "pour-it-on" spirit was obvious even over the radio...
Cracked an indignant French diplomat in Washington: "Mon Dieu, que faut-il faire pour leur plaire? Se prostituer...
...took the precaution to wire New York for a full text of the F.D.R. speech. Reading it the next morning in the cold light of day and without benefit of the superb Roosevelt inflection, Speechwriter Bell thought his chief could ignore it. But then the telegrams began to pour in from irate Republicans offering advice on how to answer the President...
...LCLs have reached their prescribed point and halt in the water while we in our own rolling craft move on. We pass right through their line, reforming on the other side while they continue to pour fire over our heads...
...Chinese had been fighting south of Hengyang for a fortnight when the big break came. The weather had been cloudy and locked in all the way up the valley; never could we pour in all the air support in our power till the day we said goodbye to Kweilin. Then the sun shone clear and unchallenged and then it was too late...