Word: spray
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good. Potential "students" and newshawks, advised to "look up and dodge" rather than seek cover, watched a picked demolition detail lop off a 17-in. tree with "a necklace of half-pound TNT blocks, open up a 4-ft. roadway crater, send barbed-wire entanglements up in a spray. Two TNT blocks neatly halved a railroad rail. A homemade mine (an old cartridge box, batteries, scrap iron, wire, string, 6½lb. of TNT) tore the guns from an old World War I tank. A hand grenade and booby trap were manufactured on the spot from the same pick...
...Allies. In the U.S., Director Archibald MacLeish of OFF declared the Axis campaign to spread discord among the United Nations to be "as shrewd, as ruthless as any plot of the Borgias." Axis radio spray to the U.S.: "American policy is dictated in Downing Street . . . will leave America holding the bag." To Brit ain: "The British Empire is dissolving like a lump of sugar in the Roosevelt teacup...
...matted with oil, managed to scramble into it or were pulled up from the sea. It was built to carry only 63. Jammed in so tightly that they could not sit down, they floated wretchedly through the rest of the night and into the morning. Rain drenched them, salt spray covered them. There were mornings after mornings. Five died, pleading for coffee or water. They were dropped into...
...first deposited on the metal, then a layer of zinc or tin much thinner than usual is added. Baking then fuses the two coats into an alloy whose exceptional resistance to rust and corrosion has already been demonstrated on wire screens, and on Sears, Roebuck's insecticide spray tanks. Even though small amounts of nickel are required, the net result is a goodly saving in scarce metals...
...love of this place with a Czech immigrant and a handful of local citizens. The plot is no more than their comings & goings, births & deaths, over 60 years. Behind this is Nature's overpowering background of sea, fog, wind; the pages burgeon with blueberries, cranberries, marsh grass, salt spray and ospreys...