Word: turretful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ciardi's personal poetry corner during most of the war was the turret of a Saipan-based...
...voice rose, "the right honorable gentleman did not wake up one morning and say, 'Oh, let us get another Viceroy!' It must have some purpose or reason behind it." He scowled across at Attlee, then slowly wheeled round like a battleship's gun turret and returned to his seat...
...metal Skysedan will have a top speed of more than 160 m.p.h., a cruising speed of 140. Its 165-horsepower Continental engine will carry it 620 miles on 40 gallons of gas. Special features: a "turret-top" cabin roof for better visibility, and windshield wipers, first ever installed on a light plane...
...Susan's (Joan Fontaine) sister and brother-in-law (Rosemary De Camp and Henry Morgan), brat-beset and waterlogged in poverty; and how, despite that portentous domestic scene, he and Susan got engaged that evening. He remembers the long, sickening period after he was laid off (from a turret lathe), when he pawned his tools, and pounded the pavements, while Susan's work in a bookstore supported them both. He remembers the long stretch before he was drafted when he worked the night shift in a defense plant and he and Susan saw each other only on their...
Twenty minutes later the Houston's No. 2 turret took a direct hit which sent flames leaping as high as the bridge. It was getting worse every minute. Another fire broke out. Enemy planes were overhead...