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...solid a couple of times to set off the fuse. They usually knock it on their helmets or rifle butts. They got so close to us at times, we could hear them pull the pin, bang the damn things on their helmets 'klunk-klunk'; and then 'WHAM...
...left was another hill, half green where grape vineyards had been planted and half yellow where wheat was planted. Up this slope Morehouse and K Company were now attacking, and we could see their red tracer bullets shooting very prettily into the green of the grape vines. Thrush! Wham! a shell with terrific velocity flew over our heads through the pass...
...solve. While working on George Abbott's Best Foot Forward, Walker was approached by Gene Kelly, who staged the dances for the show. Kelly had definite ideas. Roared he: "The orchestra should go de-bump-bump-bump, wha-ah, crash, zip, bang, de-bump, de-bump, bzzzz, wham!" It's got to be terrific, an earthquake, a tidal wave, the end of the world!" Walker nodded quietly, went back to his office and came up with the Paramount-Public-Fox finish. Kelly was beside himself with delight...
About them Texas' Tom Connally, Foreign Relations Committee chairman, was apprehensively outspoken: "They are just laying for the peace treaty to come, and then WHAM! That's what they'll do. This is just a foreshadowing of what we can expect." He spoke with cause: in the next two years Democrats will have 57 Senators -not a treaty-making majority even with every one in line...
...nitrate for artillery shells and aerial bombs), smokeless powder (long in use as a propellant), tetryl (used in shell boosters to provoke the detonation of laggardly TNT or amatol). Least sensitive of all the Ordnance powders is ammonium pictrate, which is used in armor-piercing projectiles because it can wham through steel without going off at first impact...