Word: showering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Down from the abbey trickled pitiful refugees, Italians caught in no man's land. They had been panicked by an Allied artillery warning of shells that exploded in a shower of leaflets warning of the coming bombing. The Germans had refused to let them leave the abbey. But the refugees, who said German machine guns were at every door, did not say that Germans had been in the abbey...
Some of the Navy's admirals got a shaking around last week; a shower of stars fell among others...
...attack on a convoy that I was depth-bombed for the first time. None of us knew what to expect from a depth charge. They were most frightening. I remember standing, holding onto the brass ladder as these things went off. With the first few bangs there was a shower of the white cork which lines the hull to absorb moisture. We called the downfall a "white Christmas...
Battle Bred. In a quiet moment of the noisy Gilberts affair, John decided to take a shower on the Liscome Bay, had just soaped himself when the little carrier was torpedoed. Naked as a new chick, he made his way through the shattered carrier to the flight deck. (The Liscome Bay was afire from stem to stern, sinking in a sea of blazing oil.) John jumped overboard. Badly burned, he was finally plucked out of the ocean by a destroyer...
...excited over the prospect of a shower that yields water at Dillon Field House. The H. A. A. got wind of it and had the leak repaired immediately...