Word: salvo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Salvo of Praise
...grateful reader pause in the day's occupation to suggest a salvo of praise for the anonymous editor and the selfless team of researchers and collaborators who are responsible for the over-all story on the U.S.S.R. and Maxim Litvinoff in the issue...
...north whipped nine Jap bombers at high altitude. Anti-aircraft slammed against the chattering of machine guns, and the convoy zigzagged in a crazy pattern. The Jap took dead aim and let go. His first salvo missed. The second took the Langley fairly. Dive-bombers bored in, slammed the old tender again & again...
...salvo of heavy bombs whistled down," wrote Frank Hewlett of the United Press from Manila. "With a roar that rocked the city for blocks, the bombs crunched down along the northern edge of the walled city...
...British attitude toward Japan, and especially toward Japan's Navy. He has heard for years the U.S. Navy's boast that the Japs would be a pushover.* He knows how the cruiser Mogami, some of whose welded seams parted when she fired a full salvo on her trials, was exaggerated into a kind of saltwater One Hoss Shay. He knows how the little torpedo boat Tomoduru, which, because it was overloaded with guns and torpedo tubes and had insufficient displacement, tipped over on steam trials, was exaggerated into a great turtle-turning dreadnought, built from stolen plans...