Word: sinkful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cannot be beaten, and the war cannot be won, simply by building merchant ships a little faster than they are sunk. The past few months have been good ones largely because U-boats cannot operate efficiently in midwinter seas, and spring is apt to make Allied ships and hearts sink fast. The past few months have also seen vast extensions of Allied military lines, and campaigns of spring and summer are apt to stretch them farther yet. New construction is not outstripping new sinkings by a great enough margin to carry accumulating stocks of war and meet...
...found more: six cruisers, six destroyers, a transport and auxiliaries. First, her ten guns set a light cruiser ablazing. Twenty rounds from her crack batteries were enough to finish a heavy cruiser, blowing up its entire midsection. Other U.S. warcraft and the Salt Lake City joined fire to sink one of the auxiliaries. Then the Salt Lake City returned to her first target, the damaged light cruiser, and pumped more salvos into...
...seen such a window." But while the men stared, enemy star shells burst in the sky and small boats carried the Commandos to the beaches. Destroyers of the Royal Navy escorted them, and "sometimes we caught snatches of the suave voice of the naval commander: 'Make to Rastus-Sink her,' or 'Make to Seraph-Board...
Declared President Ryti: "Decisive battles . . . may already be in progress. . . . The World War seems to be reaching its climax and surprises are likely to occur. . . . Civilized nations cannot sink so deep that they will not acknowledge every people's legitimate right to life and liberty. Therefore we may still look forward with confidence...
...jump from the ship into burning oil you may, if you are a good swimmer, avoid being burned. . . . Jump feet first through the flames. Swim as long as you can under water, then spring above the flames and breathe, taking a breast stroke to push the flames away; then sink and swim under the water again. ... To be able to do this, however, you will have to remove your life belt and other cumbersome clothing. . . . The danger of injury from underwater explosion is lessened by swimming or floating on the back...