Word: shedding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...base in central Japan one day last week, a heavy spring rain swept across the runways and drummed on the roof of a large corrugated metal shed. Inside, the leather-jacketed crews for ten U.S. Air Force B-29s crowded into the briefing room. "Gentlemen," said the major, as he laid his pointer on a ten-foot map of Japan and Korea, "our target for tonight is the rail bridge at Sinhung." Said the captain: "You'll each be carrying forty 500-pound bombs with nose fuses . . . Flak is expected to be meager until the release point...
Cord and seersucker jackets have the same overwhelming virtue of being remarkably inexpensive; one can shed them each fall like old toenails and feel no financial twinges...
...yellowed papers, which also included Gay's correspondence with some of the most important men of the day, have previously been stored in the trunks and attics of the editor's heirs. It is expected that much of this confidential information will shed new light on the history of the Civil...
...roof of this station is directly on the Continental Divide, and the peak of the roof, uniquely conical in shape to prevent the gathering of snow, forms the water shed between the Atlantic and the Pacific. Yet the station sometimes pays a high price for its locations in the discomfort of its personnel...
...Capture. The posse settled down warily to wait for the law. But Ellis set the barn on fire. It burned to smoldering ruins. When the ranchers discovered that Ellis had taken refuge in a tool shed behind it, they opened up with volleys from deer rifles, pistols, shotguns and .225. Six hundred rounds were fired. "Come out!" a rancher yelled. There was no answer. Several hundred more rounds cracked into the shack. Then Ellis, hit by six bullets, and dying, called "I'm through. Come...