Word: sheathes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Above all, Commandomen must learn to kill. They prefer to kill quietly. A favorite Commando weapon is a long, straight knife, both edges sharpened razor-keen, carried in a trouser sheath. Some have metal kneecaps, fitted with metal spikes, to be driven into enemy crotches and spines. They can devise their own daggers, clubs, knives. They know the uses of spiked brass knuckles. All must know a Commando equivalent of jiujitsu. Fiercely, without quarter, they battle each other in practice combat, often break each other's bones: a few nights before the St. Nazaire raid one officer...
...They are self-supervising. Damage to the sheath lets gas escape; and this warning drop in pressure sends crews to repair the cable before the vital copper conductors are hurt...
Still no winds blew. The cold was not intense. Like some legendary city perishing before the coming of a new Ice Age, Amarillo sank quietly, irresistibly deeper & deeper beneath its sheath of ice, until it was cut off from the outside world. Now and then a lonely radio amateur got through with some word. The nerves of civilization quietly parted. Wide clean streets became tangles of wires. Forty-year-old trees, planted and cared for as trees are cared for only in the plain country, groaned and creaked all through the night, booming as they split open...
...cells at birth, and, unlike other cells, they do not multiply. Torn nerve fibres heal only by sending forth tendrils toward the severed ends. In stitching together jagged nerve ends, surgeon must be careful not to pull the nerve taut, must draw the silk through the petal-thin nerve sheath, not through its body...
...moss blazed up. Fire shot along the dry, wooden walls in their sheath of iron. Walter Barnes cried out: "You can all get out if you keep calm." He yelled and brandished his baton at the Creolians, trying to keep them playing on the platform. The dancers did not keep calm. They pressed toward the narrow door. It jammed. They dashed to the rear of the hall, and the boarded-up windows. Drummer Oscar Brown always carries a hammer to nail his drums to the floor; he hammered his way through a boarded window. A few followed...