Word: towers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rolled, her conning tower awash. Machine gunners on the patrol boat poured streams of bullets into the enemy craft. The forward deck gun crew got off one round?a direct hit on the conning tower?as the 487 circled to ram again. Now the submarine was almost entirely on the surface. The Little Fellow crashed into the Jap just forward of the conning tower, rolling the sub over. A wavering periscope scraped the side of the 487's hull, broke a stanchion on deck and came within an inch of decapitating Skipper Cornell...
After the show, dancing continued, refreshments flowed, and the cupcakes disappeared rapidly. The party ended with the tolling to midnight from the bell in the tower of Memorial Hall. Dr. LeCorbeiller's secret weapon remained to stand guard over the building...
Beer and singing are the mainstays of the German Club, or Verein Turmwaechter, which whoops and hollers its joy from the Lowell House Tower Room at regular intervals. Practically unaffected by the war, the club is entirely disconnected from the Germany of today...
...bombs fell. Lost: twelve bombers, a low price to pay for the ruin reported by the Germans. London heard a Nazi broadcaster the next morning: "The view over the Alster [famed lake at Hamburg's center] was a terrible sight today. Smoke rose from all burning houses. The tower of the town hall stood in flames. Every minute delayed-action bombs exploded. The Opera House has been burned out and all world-famous entertainment places destroyed. It is now 8 a.m., and smoke is so black over the city that it is almost as dark as in the middle...
When he leaves railways, he often discovers other strange features of the English landscape. A farmyard contains a tall tower leaning well to the right (". . . and my Italian prisoners put up the silo"). An enormous bomber roars low over a tiny cottage which, luckily, just fits between the bomber's mighty wheels ("I'm afraid we shall have to leave building the new wing until after the war"). Emett's capacity to embroider a theme with variations applies not only to railways but also to such other redoubtable English features as ear trumpets, bath chairs, lantern-slide...