Word: slug
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when the war ended, Patton had little more than a nuisance grip. South of the town, the Blues' main body was still 25 miles away. The Blues' armored troops were just getting ready to cross the Sabine. And Ben Lear still had in reserve a powerful slug: the Sixth Infantry Division, and the bulk of his armored troops...
...Army to try to slug toe-to-toe with the Wehrmacht, said they, would be fatal. The Red Army would be annihilated within three months. Last week the Red Army was still only partly annihilated, and the rest of it was still slugging. Even Berlin reported its resistance "unbelievable," spoke with hurt surprise of new Russian opposition. On three colossal fronts the Red Army was not only taking punishment but giving...
...Many a navyman still remembers how some years ago one famed U.S. battleship fired her forward turret on her test run and spent six months in the navy yard getting her damage repaired. And now North Carolina was out to prove the hard way that she could take a slug many times heavier. Neither so fast nor so heavily protected as such new-day beauties as the 15-in.-gunned German Tirpitz and the unhappy Bismarck, she carries a more powerful wallop* than any foreign ship afloat...
...stay in the air on patrol missions for more than 48 hours. No speedster, she reportedly will cruise around 200 m.p.h., but she is defended by the biggest assortment of machine guns and cannon ever put on one airplane. Her bomb load is 18 tons, three times the slug packed by the Flying Fortress. Everything else about her is on the same outsize scale. Her tail surfaces are only four inches narrower than the wing of a Martin bomber, she has ten miles of wire in her innards, a telephone system with 24 stations, bunks for eight of her battle...
Most of us don't know enough about death to be afraid of it yet. If we did, we'd probably want to have everyone lynched who's trying to promote a slug in the belly for us. Like the men who really know something about death. The men who saw death at close range in the 1914-1918 murdering match...