Word: snub
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...U.S.S. Angry turned her snub, sea-battered nose out into the grey wilderness of wintry Atlantic. Green water pounded the corvette's narrow decks, doused her open bridge where the hooded skipper stood squinting into the mist. Now and then he gave a quiet command for relay to engine room, signalmen and the helmsman below. The Angry was heading back to sea, guarding another convoy of rusty freighters, laden with men and supplies for distant battlefronts...
...longest role in the play belongs, not to one of the three, but to snub-nosed English Ingénue Musgrove. * Actress Anderson's pet story concerns the shy Garbo's inspecting Miss Anderson's California home with a view to renting it. Garbo inquired how often the gardener came, was told "every day." Said Garbo, exiting: "Too often...
Typified at Algiers was the plan of local attack which the U.S. forces carried out everywhere they landed. Most of their armored, snub-nosed barges from the convoys came, not to the port itself, but to the sandy beaches a few miles from the city. There they disgorged Rangers (U.S. commandomen) for initial landings, infantry, artillery and tanks to consolidate and widen the landings. Their purposes were to pincer the city itself, and to seize Blida and Maison-Blanche, Algiers' two main airdromes...
...Timoshenko's main strength was apparently concentrated in a vast arc before Stalingrad, that German positions along the Don at Voronezh were safe for the moment. Bock might be on the threshold of an even greater victory. He could look with satisfaction on what his Panzers, shock troops, snub-nosed caterpillar guns and rank-on-rank of efficient infantrymen had achieved. He could look with hawk-eyed anticipation at the mighty Volga, throbbing artery that pumps the heart of Russia, almost within his grasp. With brains and reasonable luck he might sever that artery by autumn...
...R.A.F. had found daylight raids both necessary and feasible. Necessary because the wait for light cloud-covered bombing nights grew too long while the sands of the Red army trickled away and shipping off the U.S. took a terrible licking. Feasible because Britain's newest four-motored bombers, snub-nosed Lancasters, could get up enough speed, carrying several tons of bombs, to raid Germany and return with conservative losses. On three successive days last week Lancasters and slower, longer-ranged Sterlings swept over the Ruhr to paste steel mills, factories, electric plants and other industries that feed Hitler...