Word: robombs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus the Londoner stayed off the streets as much as he could. He planned his day with the robomb uppermost in his mind. He stayed away from windows. On the streets he saw hurrying people, noticeably fewer than two months...
This time there were no bomb bores with a shopworn story of a lucky miss. This time the robomb itself was the bore. Almost all other topics had gone out of casual conversation. Even last week's good war news was merely a minor point in the business of getting through another...
Harold J. Laski, Britain's brilliant, bucktoothed, left-wing economist, plunged five flights without getting out of bed when a Nazi robomb wrecked his hotel. The bed landed upright. Occupant Laski: unhurt...
...most Londoners were convinced that they were in for something infernally worse: a rocket-propelled robomb whose deadly war head might be ten times the size of V-1s, with explosive force far greater than even the R.A.F.'s six-ton factory-buster (see below...
...Fighters. If the robomb gets through, it runs into a wide belt of fighter planes-Spitfires, Mustangs, Mosquitoes, Tempests. Pilots of the day force are in readiness from an hour before dawn to an hour after dark. It is a dangerous business: the R.A.F. rewards it by giving Distinguished Flying Crosses for every ten robombs downed. The highest individual score last week was 27 shot down, credited to Rene van Lierde, a Belgian...