Word: scatteration
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hell in the port. A Frenchman who had been caught in a hotel near the port told me he had never seen such superb gunnery in his life-that every shot which came in landed in the port and none lit in the town. Some shell fragments did scatter, naturally, and in at least one other locality, some houses were hit and a number of Arabs were killed. However, I would not have believed it possible for operations on such a scale to cause so little harm to civilians. Certainly the Americans did everything to avoid injuring the town...
...year ago the famous anthropologist's plan for the creation of a new synthetic German race from foreign elements, to replace the natural inhabitants of the Reich whom he proposed to scatter after obliterating their state, was denounced by Pitirim A. Sorokin, professor of Sociology, as untenable...
...evening began with a talk by Sweetman describing the various began. He set off incendiaries to demonstrate the use of water, showing how to stead, stream will cause the bomb to burn very fast and scatter...
...minute later a squadron of absolutely World War model biplanes took after the B25. These machines were so decrepit that the wind from our bomber was enough to scatter them. After this the American raider flew away unchallenged and disappeared against the side of Fujiyama...
...certificates to be presented to the student officers will credit them with satisfactory courses in the elements of seamanship, navigation, and naval history. Although the class will scatter widely to take up active duty or enter other technical schools all over the country the largest group will remain at the University where 125 men are to enter the Communications School for five months of intensive training...