Word: pours
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shells from the Red-held north bank hit the Amethyst, crippled her bridge and wheelhouse. Rudder controls jammed. The Amethyst swung helplessly with the current; she ran aground on a bar near the island. Her four forward guns, facing the island, were useless, but her stern guns began to pour a methodical fire of 4-in. shells into the Communist positions. The shore batteries cut loose again. "It was a bit of a haze from then on," said one of the survivors...
Hothead. The Burmese streamed out of doors to pour pots of water over the ground and offer up prayers to Thi-gya-min. Early next morning, clad in bright blue, red or green skirt-like longyis and rubber bathing caps, they set out with more water for the pagodas, to wash the sacred images. Cold drinks, tea and Burman spaghetti were served at marquees at almost every street corner and gay music sounded everywhere. Pious oldsters listened to the discourse of holy men, and everywhere the Burmese splashed one another with a will...
...setting, about some fussin' and feudin' between the French Foreign Legion and the Arabs. Its hero is Legionnaire George Raft, a man with an eye for Arab beauty, who falls in love with the Paris-bred daughter (Marie Windsor) of a rebel chieftain. He is finally obliged, pour la patrie, to dynamite her to kingdom come, along with a large group of her compatriots. Outpost's most dramatic feature: some authentic shots of the Atlas Mountains in French Morocco...
Workman will pour asphalt on the paths in front of Lamont Library tomorrow, a week behind schedule. Frederick Jackson, engineer in charge of grading, revealed that the delay was caused by three days of rain last week which stopped work completely...
...justified this program by saying that "when officials of governments constantly pour out vitriolic attacks on free peoples...the remedy should be widespread dissemination of information...