Word: spray
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...house looked like something on a Christmas card-its white expanse gleaming in the shadows, the mellow, warm light from its windows shining through the ancient, weatherbeaten oaks and maples. Poinsettias replaced the ferns in the hallways; wreaths of spruce and pine cones appeared in the windows; a spray of mistletoe hung from the big brass light in the lobby, over the Presidential seal embedded in the stone floor...
...Alligator" used in recent tests is unfinished, unarmed. But the Navy has notified John David Crummey's Food Machinery Corp., which will manufacture them (they also make spray pumps, peach pitters, fruit cookers), of its intention to buy 200 amphibians (cost: $3,500,000), to be armed and armored against the day when the Marines may again have to take a situation in hand...
Soon the Fascist hornets came, angry waves of Sparviero bombers, guarded by Falco chasers which British fighters rose to meet as explosives showered around the departing British warships. One bomb-fall landed all around the Ark Royal, but she emerged from cataracts of spray with all her anti-aircraft guns crackling angrily...
...heard the thunder of engines, saw the mist ripped open by a trim, broad bow, saw a tiny boat skim by, skittering off the tops of waves, pelting through others in a burst of spindrift. On her bridge they caught a quick glimpse of hooded men, goggled, drenched with spray, hanging on behind a tiny windshield. On her deck, if they got a good look, they saw four torpedoes, two glassed-in turrets housing twin machine guns. Then she was gone, a bellowing little boat that faded into the grey rain. Now & then another one would blurt past...
...bear looking into. First, it was a dark night, which makes torpedoing a very hard job, even assuming that by pure chance the vessel should have been discerned-she was showing no lights, I presume. More important, it was an exceedingly stormy night: high wind, mountainous waves, rain and spray. Ask a naval expert about this-he will probably tell you that effective submarine operations under such conditions are all but impossible. Secondly, two torpedoes were reported, which is strange, considering the relative unimportance of a passenger vessel...