Word: tnt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hellenes were Hellish too. They had carefully mined the roads and primed the bridges with TNT-and, unlike the Dutch and French, apparently did not forget to touch off the charges. Greece's Metaxas Line-pillboxes, barbed wire, trenches-was ironically strongest opposite neutral Bulgaria; nevertheless it offered barriers. The first line ran from Fiorina to the sea. The Greeks furthermore diverted streams on to roads, used every hillock and rock for sniping. Italian Alpinists are among the best mountain troops in Europe; but the Greek evzones-picturesque, wiry men in white jackets and kilts, slippers with turned...
Before he plunged into a war he thought was already won, Benito Mussolini used to talk of a daredevil air squadron called "I Disperati"-the desperate ones. These brave men, when the proper time came, would climb into the air in planes packed with TNT and dive to their death and to the glory of the fatherland smack into the middle of enemy ships...
Basic Materials: Aluminum, antimony, asbestos, chromium, cotton linters, flax, graphite, hides, industrial diamonds, manganese, magnesium, manila fibre, mercury, mica, molybdenum, optical glass, platinum group metals, quartz crystals, quinine, rubber, silk, tin, toluol (coal-tar derivative used in TNT), tungsten, vanadium, wool...
...When tested, Inventor Barlow's oxygen bomb?so much more powerful- than TNT that Senators burned the minutes describing...
...tenth successive victory, knowing New York fight fans became aware of the latest pugilistic freak: a hollow-cheeked, sunken-eyed 132-pounder, with the legs of a flyweight, the shoulders of a lightweight, the forearms of a middleweight. Somewhere in those forearms there was an arsenal of TNT. Seven of his opponents in a row had fallen like tenpins...