Word: pointblank
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...Harrison silently looked on as the men dragged the struggling women over to the oak tree and shoved them beside the bound figures of their husbands. Then the mob fired three pointblank volleys into their prisoners...
White House Call. Joe Ball had thought long and deeply before bolting. Also he had been wooed by the Democrats. Soon after he seconded Tom Dewey's nomination at Chicago, word went round that Ball was lukewarm. The St. Paul Pioneer Press asked him pointblank. Replied Joe Ball on Sept. 29: "Governor Dewey . . . has not yet convinced me that his own convictions . . . are so strong that he would fight vigorously for a foreign policy which will offer real hope of preventing World...
...Point-blank!" he said, "pointblank, sir. We had to get out the best way we could...
...artillerymen fired pointblank into the Japs with fuses set at four-tenths of a second. They bounced their high explosive shells 50 yards in front of their guns and into the maniacal ranks. They manned their few machine guns and fired until the guns stopped from overheating. They fired their carbines until the ammunition was exhausted...
German artillery raked the battalion the rest of the day. A shell from a German 88 hit a company commander pointblank, hurled his body 60 feet. But the men clung to the hills by the bridge, awaiting reinforcements. They did not come. The regiment was trapped. That morning, while the Americans attacked toward the bridge, the Germans had taken a town far to the rear. The enemy had evidently watched the regiment's advance the night before, had skillfully moved in behind it. Parts of an armored division and a motorized division, outnumbering the Americans, had sheared through...