Word: pouring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...colonel, who was an American liaison officer with the Chinese Army, peeled off his gun, unbuttoned his shirt, let the sweat pour down his dusty face in tired rivulets. I peeled down to bare middle and the heat slowly settled in to choke us. The train was making about six miles an hour and the colonel was telling us about the evacuation of Hengyang...
...strangest doubleheaders in baseball history. At Milwaukee's Borchert Field, General Manager Stumpf's Milwaukee Chicks had met their Minneapolis rivals in the All-American Girls Professional Ball League after a one-hour prelude of classical music (Grieg's Heart Wounds, Ravel's Pavane pour tine Infante etc. etc.) by the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra...
...gave it up. Then the TNT arrived. The sergeant was pretty mad by this time. He snatched it up savagely and said to the spectators: "A lot of muck is going to fly, so all of you people stand back. There's no telling how many bastards may pour...
Modest Proposal. The debate may become a babel of economic argument on the sort of machine that the Stabilization Fund should be. But some things it cannot be are clear. The proposed Stabilization Fund will not give milk to the world's Hottentots. Nor can it pour out the billions that must be poured into occupied countries if they are to be restored as going economies. Nor can it solve the problem, which loomed huge after the last war, of collecting billions in reparations...
...first battle; the British 6th. They captured gun positions, pillboxes, road junctions, destroyed bridges. Some of them made contact later with ground troops. Some of them, the Germans claimed, were annihilated. The Old Ladies. It was at 5:35 a.m. that morning that the Allied armada had begun to pour its fire onto the French coast, where brightly colored German ack-ack was streaking the morning sky. In the fleet were old ladies like the Arkansas, belching with twelve 12-in. guns, the Texas and the Nevada, each with ten 14-inchers; the British Warspite, veteran of Jutland...