Word: robots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fact remains that wherever the robot bomb does hit, it does as much damage to any luckless person, building or section of landscape as though the projectile had been precision-aimed...
...first robot bombs hit at night. Then for five days last week they crashed down on southern England. British authorities, unwilling to tell the enemy what he was hitting, suppressed all details of the places struck (German propaganda implied that London was the chief target), but acknowledged that damage had been done, people hurt and killed. If any military targets were hit, the Germans did not get the satisfaction of learning about...
...hospitals were robot-bombed. A nurse in one said she was awakened by the approach of something "like a ball of fire in the sky." Seconds later "there was a terrific explosion and the whole place seemed to blow up. . . . When I got myself free I found a part of the home demolished. I heard cries of nurses trapped under the debris. We got some of them free by clearing away the wreckage with our hands...
Ghoulies and Ghosties. At other places grownups and children alike were killed, injured, buried in rubble. Citizens who escaped injury uneasily referred to the robot as "that Thing," or "It" (see below...
Nevertheless, the British took the Nazis' open attack on their morale with war-tempered resignation. One daytime robot rumbled over a cricket pitch, trailing a 30-ft. lash of flame, and exploded in a nearby field. The game went on. A milkman told a customer that one of the things had hit near his place the night before, then added: "Blew a hole in a field. That won't do much good, will...