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  • The gunner's mate came up and started breaking the locks on the ammunition. Everything was locked up for fear that someone might go in there with a cigarette or something.

    Break Up   Locks   Might  
  • sunshine is just beyond the clouds" Carl Joesph Gunner

  • Life is like invading Russia. A blitz start, massed shakos, plumes dancing like a flustered henhouse; a period of svelte progress recorded in ebullient despatches as the enemy falls back; then the beginning of a long, morale-sapping trudge with rations getting shorter and the first snowflakes upon your face. The enemy burns Moscow and you yield to General January, whose fingernails are very icicles. Bitter retreat. Harrying Cossacks. Eventually you fall beneath a boy-gunner's grapeshot while crossing some Polish river not even marked on your general's map.

    Fall   Boys   Yield  
    "Talking It Over". Book by Julian Barnes, books.google.ru. February 23, 2010.
  • Ferguson's out of order. He has lost all sense of reality. He is going out looking for a confrontation, then asking the person he is confronting to apologise. He's pushed the cork in a bit far this time.

  • During the air war of 1944, a four-man combat crew on a B-17 bomber took a vow to never abandon one another no matter how desperate the situation. The aircraft was hit by flak during a mission and went into a terminal dive, and the pilot ordered everyone to bail out. The top turret gunner obeyed the order, but the ball turret gunner discovered that a piece of flak had jammed his turret and he could not get out. The other three men in his pact could have bailed out with the parachutes, but they stayed with him until the plan hit the ground and exploded. They all died.

    Death   War   Men  
  • I am delighted to be here at Arsenal and to be part of one of the great teams in English football. It's a huge satisfaction to join this great club and it’s been a dream since I was young to play in the Premier League. I was attracted by the philosophy of football and Arsène Wenger’s 'touch' at this club. I have always admired Arsenal with its great history and reputation, and I now hope to achieve great things here. I’m very proud to be a Gunner and I will give my best for all the Arsenal fans.

    "Arsenal complete signing of Olivier Giroud from Montpellier", www.theguardian.com. June 26, 2012.
  • No one accuses the Gunner of maudlin affection for anything except his beasts and his weapons. He hasn't the time. He serves at least three jealous gods—his horse and all its saddlery and harness; his gun, whose least detail of efficiency is more important than men's lives; and, when these have been attended to, the never-ending mystery of his art commands him.

    Art   Horse   Military  
    "The Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling: All novels, short stories, letters and poems".
  • When you give success to stupid people, it makes them more stupid sometimes and not more intelligent.

    "Mourinho reveals Wenger dossier". news.bbc.co.uk. November 2, 2005.
  • Other clubs never came into my thoughts once I knew Arsenal wanted to sign me.

  • I'm a bit of a gunner on the QWERTY keyboard.

    Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com
  • Everyone thinks they have the prettiest wife at home.

    Home   Thinking   Wife  
    "Wenger wins mind games" by Phil McNulty, news.bbc.co.uk. May 8, 2002.
  • Victory was never in doubt. Its cost was...What was in doubt, in all our minds, was whether there would be any of us left to dedicate our cemetery at the end, or whether the last Marine would die knocking out the last Japanese gun and gunner.

  • The mind travels faster than the pen; consequently, writing becomes a question of learning to make occasional wing shots, bringing down the bird of thought as it flashes by. A writer is a gunner, sometimes waiting in the blind for something to come in, sometimes roaming the countryside hoping to scare something up.

    Writing   Wings   Bird  
    "The Elements of Style" by William Strunk, Jr., E. B. White, (Ch. V), 1972.
  • I built a cannon out of ice, and wrapped myself in the funeral carpet which my husbands and wives had woven for me out of their own hair, and one of my wives was my gunner. I came back here, after many adventures, and once, when I'd been drinking, donated the funeral carpet to the national museum. When I was sober again, I asked for it back, but they claimed not to know what I was talking about.

    Kelly Link, Shelley Jackson (2005). “Magic for Beginners”, p.62, Small Beer Press
  • Once a gunner, always a gunner

    Gunners  
    "Arsenal fans should aim anger at Arsène Wenger, not Cesc Fábregas" by Toby Moses, www.theguardian.com. June 13, 2014.
  • The harder the fighting and the longer the war, the more the infantry, and in fact all the arms, lean on the gunners.

    Military   War   Fighting  
  • Given the prevailing lack of discipline, it would have been impossible to use Congolese machine-gunners to defend the base from air attack: they did not know how to handle their weapons and did not want to learn.

  • The elements which determine the make of any particular sermon are three; the preacher, the material, and the audience; just as the character of any battle is determined by three elements; the gun (including the gunner), the ammunition, and the fortress against which the attack is made.

    Character   Gun   Battle  
    Phillips Brooks “The Joy of Preaching”, Kregel Publications
  • Envy is a gun with a faulty breech-lock which flares back and burns the gunner.

    Gun   Envy   Locks  
    "Keystones of Thought". Book by Austin O'Malley, 1914.
  • A football team is a like a beautiful woman, when you do not tell her, she forgets she is beautiful

    2002 In The Times, 28 Dec.
  • I do not care so much for the death of my gunner, as for other passages of my voyage, for I have good friends in England that will bring me off for that.

    William Kidd, Great Britain. High Court of Admiralty (1936). “The tryal of Capt. William Kidd for murther & piracy upon six several indictments: as also the tryals of Nicholas Churchill, James Howe, Robert Lamley, William Jenkins, Gabriel Loff, Hugh Parrot, Abel Owens, Richard Barlicorn, & Darby Mullins, at the Admiralty sessions held at the Old Bailey, London, on the 8th & 9th of May, 1701”
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