Word: toring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was a quick deafening scream, then a shell exploded a few feet away from the farmhouse. Dirt splattered through the stable windows on to the doughboys lying in the straw and manure inside. Another shell tore open the black soil near by. Four bundles of feathers fluttered from the hen house down to the ground. "If all they get is chickens, we've got a good day ahead," 'said Toffey. Three more explosions within 25 yards shook the house and stable. A wide-eyed replacement raised his head from the floor and gasped: "Them's bombs...
Late in the morning the sun tore the haze into milky shreds. With the visibility good, German machine guns, mortars, artillery opened up. The Germans sat behind their log-and-stone defenses and shouted in English: "Yank, give up." Or, "Major Brown says surrender...
Four of them were over Germany, and on the last one his luck almost ran out. He was flying as top-turret gunner over Münster when a flak burst hit the turret dome, shattered his goggles, tore off his oxygen mask. Copilot and radioman pulled him down and revived him with an emergency mask. After that, Ben got his orders for home...
...Leonid Govorov, plump, short, middleaged, with unruly hair and a Hitlerian mustache. In 1940 this artillery expert helped to open a corridor into Leningrad, broke the Germans' partial blockade but did not-as accounts at the time wrongly indicated-actually free the city. Until this month, German shells tore daily into Leningrad's brick-and-mortar flesh, and its defenders rode to the front in streetcars. More than a million had died of cold and hunger since Field Marshal Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb's army first besieged the city in 1941. Last week, after their long torture...
First Lady. When the Hoovers moved into the White House in 1929, Lou Hoover was the most cosmopolitan First Lady of this century. She tore the executive mansion apart, refurbished it from top to bottom, much of it with the Hoovers' own money. She entertained on a more lavish scale than any of her predecessors. In Forty-Two Years in the White House, Chief Usher Irwin ("Ike") Hoover decribed a normal day's schedule: "A large lunch, a tea or two, possibly one at four-thirty and another at five-thirty, and a dinner of from...