Word: striking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...torpedo struck her just abaft amidships on the port side. Then, said Mr. Cudahy, she "was struck again, wrecking the engine room, by a projectile projected through the air." Mr. Kennedy's report said: "No witness heard a shell in the air; no witness heard a shell strike the ship ... no splash of the projectile was seen." But (according to one quartermaster): "The submarine conning tower [unmarked] broke surface about 800 yards on the port quarter. ... A gun or explosive signal was fired. . . . The smoke from this discharge blew down over the Athenia and a distinct smell of cordite...
...Fate rested not so much on the fate of Warsaw-heavy blow to morale though that would be if it fell-as on the whereabouts and condition of Poland's remaining divisions. If they could form their mass of maneuver, as the French did around Paris, and strike at the separated advancing German armies, they might accomplish a master counterblow. If that did not work, there were still the rains to hope for and the Allied pressure at Germany's back...
...hesitate to strike out with manly courage...
...Danzig, strike out with manly courage...
...South Barre, Mass., a deputy sheriff on duty in a woollen strike handed in his badge. He said his feet hurt, he didn't like the smell of tear gas, and he was promised...