Word: sown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shooting at Kragujevac . . . that has sown panic throughout our youth. ... To reach the prescribed number of hostages - 2,300, which was afterwards doubled - they made the children with their books in their hands leave four classrooms of a secondary school, cover their faces before the bullets. They were all machine-gunned. After that massacre, the number of children wandering along the main roads and through the forests like wild beasts increased...
...time the sun was high in the sky, at 8, they had done a full hour's work; by noon, when they went back for dinner of steak & potatoes, they had nearly finished some fields. By week's end a full 200 acres would be sown to oats-oats that would be harvested in July, fed to the sleek steers that Ralph Delair ships off to the markets...
...retreat went on the British learned to destroy bridges, roads, stockpiles. Commandos were sown thicker behind enemy lines. But the main body still retreated. At some points troops withdrew as much as 50 miles a day in good order...
...Cadmus, Prince of Phoenicia, slew a dragon with Athene's help: its teeth, when sown, sprang from the earth as fully armed soldiers...
Blacked out, she was led by a Navy launch toward the minefield sown in the harbor's mouth beyond Corregidor's forbidding heights. Somehow in the dark she ran past the launch. The warning shout from the launch was lost in a vast red explosion. The old Corregidor, her hull burst, settled in shark-ridden waters...