Word: twos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...both ends. Machine guns yammer. We can see grenades exploding and the infantry still running, naked and terrible in the sun. It is only slightly more than 100 yards they have to go in the open, and through our telescopes we can see them darting across in ones and twos, leaping into trenches. Everybody in the OP is yelling as they pour in. Some of them drop, spring up again, dash from shattered stump to shattered stump. Then nobody can be seen and Jap mortars blanket the entire position from behind the ridge...
...three hours, Oldendorf's ships had to beat off a hundred Jap fighters and fighter bombers, attacking in twos & threes, concentrating first on the jeep carriers. Some enemy planes scored: at least one "big ship" took a hit on a forward turret; her captain was wounded, and there was great danger of magazine explosions. But damage and fire-control crews showed superb courage and skill. The ship kept formation and ploughed...
...Airman Mitscher was sure that the war in the western Pacific would not stop, and as he spoke, the jittery Japs got proof: four-engined bombers which they identified as B-29 Superfortresses droned in ones & twos over the Tokyo area. They dropped no bombs, and eventually the Japs figured it out: the big planes were on reconnaissance, looking-among other things-for crippled Jap ships in Yokosuka navy yard, where they might have fled from Mitscher's flyers a week earlier...
...main force concentrates on Norfolk. Armed with pistols and night sticks, they patrol on foot by twos, ride along in the city's prowl cars, or cover the county roads in trucks. They arrest all drunk and disorderly servicemen and all out-of-uniform sailors...
Morning came, overcast above, brilliant in the streets. As early as 8 o'clock, Ottawa's people began to move toward the broad sweep of greensward in front of the Parliament Building. At first they came by twos and threes. As noon approached, every street leading to the plaza had become a solid, slow-moving river of humanity. Soon, as far as the eye could see. even the rooftops were crowded...