Word: scratchings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nearby ships went a victory message: "Scratch one hearse! Scratch one hearse!" (In Navyese, a U-boat is a hearse.) As an afterthought, the message added: "Pallbearers in the water...
Hard enough to scratch glass, the steel is already used in micrometer parts and V-blocks-superaccurate gauges used in precision tooling. But plastic-metals men thought they could see many another possible use ahead, went on with their research...
...javelin throw, H. Reiner, a Quartermaster ROTC student, finished second. His throw actually bettered any of his competitors' but since he was the scratch man, his efforts only landed him in second place...
Djebel el Kreroua. The hill was Patton's most advanced position at one point on the Gafsa-Gabès road. U.S. troops who had fought without sleep for 48 hours seized it, then barely had time to scratch out shallow foxholes before 88-mm. cannon began blasting at them from German tanks in the pass below and from artillery in overlooking hills. The U.S. troops were armed only with rifles and machine guns, with which they rattled away at enemy infantry trying to follow the Axis tanks through the valley. Cut off by the German cannonading, the Americans...
...Afterwards I figured he was trying to get my lifejacket. Then, I don't know what I figured, except to get away from him. The lifejacket was tied right at my throat. The Japanese kept clawing at my throat, trying to choke and scratch me. He tried to gouge my eyes out, and he dug his nails into my cheek...