Word: spews
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lies, rumors, jokes, canards, insults, obscenities, denials, bluffs, excuses, exhortations, explanations, reassurances, trial balloons and grotesque distortions continued to spew from the world's radios last week. Most of it was Axis concoctions; some of it was Allied counter-propaganda. Behind the radio barrage fell a blizzard of newspaper squibs, handbills, pamphlets, posters. In free countries men speculated aloud with laughter and curses; in Europe they whispered behind their hands in dim cafes and shuttered homes. It was a big week in the battle of babble...
Lorries carried the assault tanks to their scene of action, unloading and readying them for action in five minutes. Their function, following the breakthrough, was to fan out and attack troops in trenches, nests, pillboxes. Some were said to spew flames 70 yards into blockhouse ventilators and machine-gun nests...