Word: torrent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Down the Cow. As gusty as he is lusty, Peirce talks a high, nasal torrent, mixing gamy reminiscences of the good old days with whatever notions happen to float through his head. At one moment he remembers persuading Hemingway to fight a bull in Spain while Peirce stood by with his Kodak to record the scene for posterity: "Only it was a cow. He damn near got killed, and then I found out there was something wrong with the camera-no picture." At the next moment, his mind still running to Hemingway, he offers a literary pronouncement: "Four-letter words...
...next assignment-Peleliu. It was the division's first strongly opposed landing and its bloodiest, hardest battle of the war. The Navy and air preparation had knocked out only a small part of the cleverly protected Jap installations. On the beach the marines were caught in a tremendous torrent of fire. The division took Peleliu at a cost of 6,000 casualties out of 23,000 men (of whom only 9,000 were infantry). The real tragedy was that the price had been paid in vain. Peleliu was to have been a base for the U.S. invasion...
Slowly the weight of two full Red regiments pushed the undermanned U.S. units back toward the pass. But at the pass, the G.I.s stuck. Time & time again, Red charges smashed against the Americans' guns. As the Reds rushed up reserves, frantic G.I. gunners manning 13 guns lobbed a torrent of 155-mm. and 105-mm. shells into masses of green-clad North Koreans trying to move up along the hillsides. But the Reds kept on coming. Two "Mansei" (the Korean equivalent of the Japanese "Banzai") charges rolled up against the U.S. positions-and broke...
...torrent whirls all the ages through either...
...world's greatest single source of electricity. When the President pushes a ceremonial button to start its newest generator (13th of 18 to be installed), Grand Coulee will be producing 1,404,000 kilowatts-enough to supply both Cleveland and Cincinnati with all their power. Yet this amazing torrent of energy will not satisfy the insatiable demand...