Word: shook
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...face in deadly combat. He states that the Swede struck the Dutchman over the head with his sword and that, "the good Peter reeled with the blow . . . and missing his footing, by reason of his wooden leg, down he came on his seat of honor with a crash which shook the surrounding hills, and might have wrecked his frame, had he not been received into a cushion softer than velvet, which some kindly cow had benevolently prepared for his reception...
They sank with a sullen splash, seconds passed and suddenly the destroyer shook from stem to stern. More depth charges followed and a second convulsion. By that time the Greer was beginning to turn. Minutes later she was back over the spot and more explosions shook the sea. For several hours the Greer quartered that sector of the sea releasing charges at the slightest suspicion of any underwater object...
Chungking withstood its 33rd bombing of the 1941 season last week. Of 135 Japanese planes that swarmed over Szechwan Province, 27 blasted the capital. Chinese huddling stoically in their shelters could tell by the way the earth shook that this raid, like those of the last few weeks, was as heavy punishment as the Japanese could inflict...
...nine of the 16-in. guns in her main battery, tripled in turrets each of which weighs more than many a destroyer, answered the Old Man. Ten of her secondary battery of 20 five-inchers simultaneously blasted the night. North Carolina took it as it came, shook her head and plowed...
Some who had looked away from the blast turned their eyes to sea and saw a great phosphorescent geyser where the 16-in. projectiles plunged into the ocean. Others, who had traded sight of the great flash for what would come later, shook their heads, rubbed their eyes and began to see again...