Word: sweatingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...landing: almost 1,000 tons of aerial bombs, plus 1.500 tons of shellfire, on Betio's crowded, scant square mile (see cut). But they could not be sure that even this tremendous pre-landing bombardment would wreck the defenses built by the Japs. On the night before battle, sweat-drenched men packed the wardroom, spilled into the passageways to pray with their chaplains...
...glistening streets were a writhing mass of fire hoses. Splintered glass lay ankle deep. Gaunt, charred walls buckled in, carrying firemen on extension ladders down with them. The night air stank with acrid smells of cordite, burnt flesh, sweat. Cries of the burned, hoarse shouted commands of the firemen, and thunderous oaths kaleidoscoped into a rumble of sound. The city seemed engulfed in flame. At dawn the rosy glow of the fires gave way grudgingly to a coppery sun, picking its way through billows of heavy black smoke...
...blockbusters for Berlin alone. As in London in 1941, Berlin's fires gorged themselves for two days. Buildings had to be dynamited to stop the fire's spread. How many lay cremated under the rubble, how strong was the smell of cordite, burnt flesh and sweat, how many were without homes, kin, legs, eyes, no one could...
Genius on the Run. As long as the English language lives, its users will be reminded that Winston Churchill said: "... I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat. . . . Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. . . . We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender. ... I have not become the King's First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation...
...locking for 'X' comes a vice sweat and cheery...