Word: pouring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Raymond Ames Spruance, a taciturn, 57-year-old Hoosier, commands the great fleet which began blasting its way last week into the Marshalls. In the estimate of one of his superiors Spruance is a "coldblooded, fighting fool." It is his carriers, capital ships, cruisers, destroyers which pour the steel into Jap installations, kindling the hot little islands, softening them up for the crawling crocodile fleet of landing boats...
...Mogilev line (see map, p, 27). The great German stronghold of Vitebsk was engulfed. Orsha was in danger. And at any hour, the four huge Red Armies idling in the north might roll west, crush the thinly spread forces of Field Marshals von Kluge" and von Küchler, pour into old Poland, the Baltic States...
...will be more than four times as big as a similar model of the Lower Mississippi at Vicksburg (TIME, March 2, 1942). Into the model's concrete-molded river beds and 150 reservoirs, duplicating those already built or proposed in the Valley itself, engineers will be able to pour a flood of 900 gallons of water a minute, regulating the flow and water stages in any part of the system by means of 1,500 gauges operated from a central control board...
...dispatched pour La Guerre...
Freshen the nip: pour yourself another...