Word: turretful
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...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...
...Houston had been taking it in a hopeless, losing, running battle with the powerful Imperial Fleet. Her crew was red-eyed and groggy from constant days of battle and alerts, from nights of air attack. She was running low on antiaircraft ammunition, her planes were out of action, one turret gone, her whole hull was bruised and weary from steady punishment...
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...
...correspondent, staring at the scene from the Missouri's No. 2 turret, whispered: "I don't know what they're going to call this; I hope it won't be the 'Missouri Compromise.' " But there was no element of compromise in the surrender document, or in the ceremony...
...fell with a thud at General Electric Company's giant Appliance & Merchandise Department in Bridgeport, Conn, last week. As fast as Washington could send telegrams, almost hourly, news of new cancelations flashed through the many divisions-no more bazookas, no more rocket launchers, no more B-29 gun turret parts, no more searchlights...