Word: pour
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Much? How Many? Supplies and men continued to pour into the United Kingdom in a vast stream. The Germans knew it. But they no longer kept as close track as before; the seas and skies had become unhealthy for prowling U-boats and reconnaissance planes...
Just Fun. In Kansas City, Mrs. Betty West and Mrs. Marian Braidwood went shopping, reported that they saw successively pour out of a department store: 1) a wave of women, 2) a rat, 3) a woman who wailed ". . . he's a pet, he's just having fun," and crammed the rat back into her pocketbook...
...left lies the narrow Liri Valley, through which leads the only practical road-but it is not passable so long as the Germans can pour deadly fire from the hills behind Cassino. This was proved in the first attack last January. U.S. troops crossed the Rapido (in the foreground), only to be forced to retire after heavy casualties...
...historians looked back to the classic battles of landbound days, and wondered if this might be the stage when the weaker side had committed its reserves and was failing. Then the stronger would strike the knockout blow. He would send in his cavalry, ripping through the flagging line, then pour infantry through the breach while his horsemen drove on, carving a decision in the enemy's disorganized rear areas...
Corporal John N. Ryback: "The Germans are yellow. They pour it in with machine guns but they hate cold steel. The boys coming back tell us that...