Word: shower
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Before his quarters at Camp Young, General Gillem has a private shower. But his lips are as cracked as those of his tankers, his face is as raw and weathered from the sand-laden wind, his uniform is a pair of overalls. Like his men, Gillem is maneuvering with one thought in mind...
Since there is no call for modesty, most shower baths are located alongside the public highway. Late in the afternoon one can drive along the road and see hundreds of men-whites here, blacks there- standing under a shower, washing off a half-inch accumulation of the day's grime. Soldiers love to pick quaint names for their camps: Virgin Lane, Luna(tic) Park, Scroungers' Rest, Hog Willow, and One Hundred Twenty-fifth Street...
Almost as an afterthought, the assertion that without a locker men would dress in street clothes without taking a shower was added as a further reason. That slim chance was not even considered during the spring, when the lockers were taken voluntarily. Come now, gentlemen; give the undergraduate credit for some intelligence...
...Japanese had launched 1,000 mustard and lewisite gas attacks against the Chinese. The heaviest (TIME, Nov. 10) were in the battle for Ichang, in October 1941. On May 26, the Japanese forced a crossing of the Singang River near Kienteh by sending planes ahead to shower gas bombs on the defenders. A fortnight ago the Japanese took Kinhwa with the help of gas, and last week repeated the performance at Chuhsien, 45 miles southwest of Kinhwa...
Opening blow was a tremendous shower of incendiaries: 40,000 thermite bombs from a single flight of bombers. Their white-hot showers reddened into smoky flames as they fired buildings. From then on, the other flights had a lighted target to shoot at. They squared away, dumped their sticks of demolition bombs, and ran for home...