Word: toring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grown apace. From Britain had come the cannon and munitions that had softened the dam. From the U.S. had come M-4 (General Sherman) * tanks mounting high-velocity, 77-mm. cannon that outranged the lower velocity German 755 by more than 700 yards. At 1,000 yards they tore holes in the frontal German armor, at 2,000 yards pierced side armor. A Seaforth Highlander reported that Italian shells bounced off his General Sherman "like tennis balls...
...which have already helped him win the Army & Navy "E." Samples: To fill a rush boat order he roped off the streets, built his boats on the pavement; to get huge Navy landing boats from New Orleans to Norfolk in time for test runs, he shipped them on flatcars, tore down and rebuilt eight railroad bridges which were too small to let his boats through...
...under the belly of my plane, sowing bullets up & down the fuselage. I dropped the nose of my plane and came at him headon. One of his bullets hit my windshield right in front of my nose, but it missed me. My own bullets were tearing him apart. We tore past each other less than 15 feet apart. When I looked over my shoulder, he had lost control and was spinning down...
...Night with Babcock. In Wabash, Ind., Orville Richard Babcock had a few more drinks, stripped to his underwear and slippers, went wading in the river, went on to an abandoned farmhouse, broke down the door, broke all the windows, tore down the banister, went on to an outbuilding, broke all the windows, set the barn afire, pushed on across a field, caught a snake, killed it, caught a lamb, killed it, returned to the river, kicked the windows out of a boathouse, threatened Ben Harris with a knife (crying, "Don't move or I'll shoot!"), went...
...Office of Education Wartime Commission. But the main push came from the high schools themselves - for months they have urged such a scheme upon the Office of Education. Many a high school has already started its own unofficial victory corps. In Sandy Spring, Md., for example, the principal tore up his old curriculum, got his youngsters busy drilling, exercising, apple picking, bandage rolling, taking care of working mothers' children, doing the school's janitor work, studying flying...