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...declared in 1939, was nothing like this. Recruiting centers are jammed, 400,000 Chicago women have applied for defense work, 100,000 have enlisted at the Red Cross. Flags broke out all over the Loop and outskirts...defense-bond sales up 75%....Unity came here with the roar of a bombing plane....The rush of volunteers 13 times greater than at any time since World War I....Enrollment for civilian defense duty 100,000; goal set for 250,000 to cover the city's 10,000 blocks...
...woman in Pelham, on her way to the beauty parlor, heard the Boston plane roar overhead as the sirens shrilled. She jammed on her brakes, was rammed by a truck, staggered into the beauty parlor, shrieked: "Hitler's coming!" and fainted...
...roar of a barrage laid down by Tobruk's defenders broke out at the western end of the 30-mile defense perimeter; Polish troops from the garrison started a diversion there. Under its cover and that of darkness, British troops moved to the eastern extremity...
...years the plutocratic International Settlement had taken pleasure in the Marines. It enjoyed their brass band, their weekly parades at the Racecourse, their curio buying. It enjoyed Marine personalities like Colonel Richard Stewart Hooker, who could "roar like a sea lion, or coo like a dove." It enjoyed the Marines' practical joking, as when four leathernecks started a Communist scare by raising a red cur tain on the U.S. Embassy flagpole. The nervous International Settlement took special comfort in the Marines after Shanghai's British garrison left last year, after the Japanese got control of the Settlement...
...destroyer was swinging hard to port at the time of the hit. Ensign Lyman heard a terrible roar as the warhead bit through the Kearny's armor. The explosion killed seven men stationed in the forward boiler room on the steaming watch. Its force ripped up through the deck, wrecked the starboard wing of the bridge, knocked the forward stack back and broke the siren cord so that its shrill yowl could not be shut off. Four others disappeared, probably blown overboard...