Word: sticking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...claimed 44 German fighters certainly destroyed (six crashed. 23 fell in flames, 14 disintegrated in the air, one was abandoned by a parachuting German) plus 20 or more probables. But the Americans had their heaviest loss to date: six bombers shot down, several more badly shot up. The reward: stick after stick of high-explosive bombs and incendiaries dropped from 20,000 feet on the Romilly airdrome, which with its charred and heaving debris looked to one pilot "like flypaper on a July...
...yards of the fighting. Medical department soldiers assigned to the unit go out in the field, apply emergency first aid, call stretcher bearers. Stretcher bearers tag the wounded, bring them to the unit's field station. There the doctors give necessary quick treatment. Their orders are to stick to their stations. If the line of battle gives, they may be killed or captured like any other soldier...
Candidates for military weathermen must not only be bright but of unusually firm character-an Air Forces meteorologist must stick by his forecasts in spite of severe pressure from action-minded tacticians...
...silk top hat. Impressed by Bible stories, young Julian tried unsuccessfully to offer up the topper as a burnt sacrifice, using the sewing machine as an altar. Later he managed to sit on the hat in church. "My father . . . uttered a low groan," beat Julian with a walking stick. Nothing worse had happened since Julian's cousin sat down at the piano and innocently played Marching Through Georgia...
After the first period flurry, the Chasemen settled down to a less hectic pace. The Techmen, deployed on their own blue line what amounted to a 5-1 defense, disregarded offense entirely, and merely awaited each Cantab surge with a prayer and a hockey stick...