Word: bombardment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...respect" for the "great achievements of the French nation" that caused Herr Hitler throbbingly to ask: "Why should this war in the west be fought? . . . "Continuation of the present state of affairs in the West is unthinkable. Perhaps the day will come when France will begin to bombard Saarbrücken. German artillery will in turn lay Mulhouse in ruins. France will retaliate by bombarding Karlsruhe and Germany in her turn will shell Strasbourg. Then the French artillery will fire at Freiburg and the German at Colmar or Schlettstadt. Long-range guns will then be set up and from both...
...Andes and Rockies, has plunged his flat, metal electroscopes 280 feet into snow-fed California lakes, to measure minute amounts of electricity which may penetrate their surfaces. Purpose of his travels: to learn something about the mysterious cosmic rays which seem to speed from interstellar space, and constantly bombard the earth...
...Spring fever Snell leaned out of the window of his room in Lowell G-42 and proceeded to bombard the famous bells with marbles from an improvised sling-shot made over from a cross-bow of his own design with which he has been practicing all winter...
...opposing in practice what it backs in theory--the freedom of the student to make his choice between good and evil and every other set of alternatives. Why not throw the course records wide open to the tutors and let them with much less effort on their part efficiently bombard the student with advertising? After all, it is difficult now, where virtuous monitors are prevalent, to make a "liberal" choice between a diploma from Harvard and a sheepskin from Wolff...
...Falstaff o'erstrides the play. Unknightliest of knights, a "tun of a man," a "huge bombard of sack"-guzzler, lecher, liar, braggart, coward, thief-he is like some centrifugal force overcoming gravitation. Far from being a villain, he is the most entertaining and lovable of knaves. Caught out in his outrageous boasts, his fantastic lies, shamming dead (to avoid being killed) on the battlefield, he never loses his unshatterable aplomb, never lags in invention or languishes in wit. At bottom Falstaff may well be a superb showman, not expecting to be believed, only counting on being relished; not expecting...