Word: toring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Australia's northern perimeter of islands the Japanese had to take more than they dished out last week. Allied bombs ripped ships and men in the harbors of New Guinea and New Britain. Bombs tore runways, wrecked hangars and aircraft on invasion airdromes of New Guinea and Timor. Said a spokesman in Melbourne: "We are trying to keep the Japanese from stabilizing their position. . . . If we had a little more equipment, we could...
...many a Chinese soldier knows, the Japanese shells that tore his body were made from U.S. scrap iron. Last week the circle was complete: silk that had gone from Japan to the U.S. was going to China, to be used as bandages. The silk, too, was a kind of scrap: old silk stockings...
Moulmein fell. Sweat-wet, bare-backed British artillerymen fired point-blank into the advancing Japanese, piled them in shredded heaps. U.S. volunteer pilots strafed them. British bayonets stabbed them. Riflemen and machine-gunners tore their advancing ranks on the open flats before the city. But the Japs came on. From Moulmein they drove the outnumbered, outgunned British across the broad Salween River. There, behind the river barrier, the British took their stand between the Japanese and the prize they were fighting for: mastery of strategic Rangoon, of the Burma Road to China, of the invasion road to India...
Letter for a Great Library. Between raids, 38-year-old Major Putnam penciled a report in his notebook, tore it out, sent it along in the patrol boat as his last report. As a Marine of 18 years' service, afloat and ashore, he must have been aware that he was adding another classic to the library of impersonal letters written by leatherneck officers since the first of the Corps sailed with John Paul Jones...
...victory also had its sad aspect when little Joe Romano got the worst of a struggle for the ball with Captain Stub Pearson of the Indians. The flashy forward tore a ligamont in his knee near the end of the first half and will be out of action for the next three or four weeks. He was treated for the injury Saturday night and will be treated again today...