Word: spray
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...proud carrier Saratoga, 800 yards away, remained in sight for about two seconds. The geyser of water almost touched her starboard side. Then spray blotted her from view. The geyser spurted up to 5,000 feet and there gave birth to the familiar mushroom-shaped cloud which rose 4,000 feet more...
...grain bins and warehouses: Spray walls and woodwork with 5% DDT in kerosene. Don't get it on the grain; treat bins when empty...
...will be provided with another house just as good if not better." Mrs. Pearson, unhappy, nervous, with tears in her eyes, protested: "But we don't want another house; we have been here for 20 years." Mr. Pearson showed his guest to the garden, broke off a spray of apple blossom, said: "But you can't give me back my apple trees." Answered Mr. Silkin: "No, but we are trying to give you a better Stevenage." Retorted Pearson, "That...
...Japan surrendered. Except in Hawaii, there had been little permanent construction, in iron and concrete, during the war. Kwajalein and Saipan, Iwo and Okinawa had been filled first with tents, then with temporary buildings such as Quonset huts. The life expectancy of these structures, under tropic rains and salt spray, is scarcely more than two years. If the bases were to be any good a few years hence, the corrugated iron must be replaced with reinforced concrete. At Wake, Marcus and Truk, where U.S. forces did not land until after the surrender, the bases had to be built from...
...tropic-marine" room permeated with salt spray...