Word: pours
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they must be assaulted, at whatever cost, and destroyed one by one. The artillery is helping, including American 105-mm. howitzers which were flown into action. But many of the Japanese foxholes are too deep and too cleverly contrived to be wiped out even by the terrific barrages which pour in tons of high explosives each day & night...
...flood of thousands of calls to the University telephone exchange, and as facilities there proved inadequate the air raid-report center on Lehman Hall was opened for the emergency traffic. Twenty men sent by the Naval School helped man the center's phones, and as calls began to pour into extension 123 at the Navy's order, the switchboard, manned by a battery of operators, answered frantic calls until late at night...
...Those kids can really pour it on," said Duble last night. "You've never seen such a bunch of seatbacks. They can do everything the big-timer...
Bridges arrived in the United States in 1920, at the age of 20. After the bloody dockyard strikes of 1934, the Communist charges began to pour in, and in 1936 Bridges was exonerated from those charges by the Department of Labor. Then in 1938 a special commission under Dean Landis of the Law School decided that he was not deportable. His methods, Landis said, were not "other than those that the framework of democratic and constitutional government permits...
...audiences, Gracie Fields's entertainment goes pretty much on its brand name acquired abroad. British servicemen find it tophole. They crowd into the studio, mill around afterwards for autographs, pour their troubles into Grycie's willing ears. One night last week two tars insisted on escorting her from her hotel to the broadcasting studio, explaining that back in England they had never got a close-up of her. Sighs Gracie: "I guess they think I'm Britannia...