Word: sandbag
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...balloons are kept in the stratosphere by a device which jettisons a sandbag whenever they begin to drop. Blown along by the prevailing easterly wind at some 125 m.p.h., the balloons reach the U.S. in an estimated 80 to 120 hours. When the last sandbag has dropped, Japs calculate, the balloon should have reached its goal. Another automatic gadget then starts it dropping, one by one; its load of incendiary bombs. When the last egg has been laid, a third automatic device (providing it works) permits the Jap balloon, in true Nipponese style, to blow itself...
...Party's strong men had striven, ever since the swift collapse of the Axis in Tunisia (TIME, June 21), to sandbag and shore up their structure. On June 24, before an emergency meeting of the Fascist Party Directorate, the aging Duce had spoken privately. Now, almost on the eve of the Allied invasion, Mussolini's words were broadcast to his people...
...Casa Rosada, Argentina's White House, police had prepared sandbag barricades and machine-gun positions. To General Domingo Martinez, Buenos Aires Police Chief, President Castillo gave orders to defend the city. But when the troops marched in the police made it clear that they were acting "to maintain order only" -there was no resistance from them. By 10 o'clock, the President had fled his residence for the safety of the Drummond, where he stayed until the excitement was over. By 3 o'clock the machine guns at the Casa Rosada had disappeared; two hours later General...
...coal mines, because it was accompanied everywhere by lessened confidence in the White House. Not only the entire nation, but the world, watched in amazement as a mere labor leader, head of half-million men, defied, thwarted and outmaneuvered the head of 135,000,000 people. This was a sandbag blow at Presidential prestige. It was also the direct result of years of open-armed favoritism to labor, of years in which every attempt to make unions responsible had been defeated. Every part of the mess was linked. The miners had some justice on their side; if prices...
...arrival of motorized Nazi soldiers, who strike the quiet village with the impact of a powder-plant explosion. The peaceful villagers, goaded by Nazi beatings and killings, finally strike back under Leader Eric Toreson (Paul Muni), who says: "We must learn to be gangsters, thugs, useful with knife, sandbag, dynamite, noose, club and poison...