Word: shouting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Some] among us still believe in the age of miracles. They forget there is no Joshua in our midst. We cannot count on great walls crumbling and falling when the trumpets blow and the peoples shout...
...muddy Mississippi. At a lonely spot below Cape Girardeau, Mo. there was important work to be done. It was 4 a.m., but time and the weather mattered little. As the creaking cranes slowly dropped a huge tube of steel through the water down to the soggy river bed, a shout went up. The job was done...
Steps toward Rescue. Continuous rowing uses up more energy than it is worth. When in a lifeboat "do not sing or shout. By doing so you use up your strength and lose valuable water in your breath." Mirages occur at sea as in the desert. "Men adrift in northern latitudes sometimes imagine they can see things which are not there, such as smoke, sails, ships or land. It does not mean that you are out of your mind or even lightheaded. Make very sure that all of you see the same object before wasting your strength in pulling toward...
...call of 'Halt!' followed almost immediately by volleys of gunfire." But with the first real fight the cool battle fortitude began to develop. "Down the beach one of the Japs had jumped up and was running for the jungle. 'There he goes!' was the shout. 'Riddle the son of a bitch!' And riddled...
Over his ship's speaker system, Oct. 26, Captain Gatch asked his men if they were ready. Bulkheads rattled the shout of 2,000 men: "Aye, aye, sir!" The first attack lasted eight minutes. The enemy threw in 20 dive-bombers. The battleship spoke with all its voices: the huge grump-grump of 5-inch all-purpose secondary batteries, the more frenetic chattering of smaller pieces...