How To Use Ack-ack In A Sentence
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Gardner was hit by our own ack-ack and bailed out.
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Through the battered century of world wars and massive violence by other means, there had always been an undervoice that spoke through the cannon fire and ack-ack and that sometimes grew strong enough to merge with the battle sounds.
Underworld
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Through the battered century of world wars and massive violence by other means, there had always been an undervoice that spoke through the cannon fire and ack-ack and that sometimes grew strong enough to merge with the battle sounds.
Underworld
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Three of us who had talked escape, Mullins, Ford and myself, took off in the pandemonium of ack-ack, bombs, strafing and napalm that hit a nearby building.
Heroes or Villains?
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My favorite was one I painted with a white and blue belly so it was camouflaged to look like clouds and sky to the Nazi ack-ack gunners below.
Lance Mannion:
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Keating and the officers and men went to sleep under clean skies, a sleep disturbed by the angry bark of ack-ack batteries and the drone of German planes looking for the beaches.
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After an hour of the deafening ack-ack of the engine, we arrived at the muddy coast of Moheshkhali.
Johann Hari: A Journey Across the Ground Zero of Global Warming
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The OED lists the earliest citation for ack-ack as a 1939 issue of Collier's magazine, which gives the source as a British abbreviation for Aircraft Attack, employing the British name for the letter A (which appears also in the older ack-emma for
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VIII No 1
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These were to include a close escort of six destroyers, four corvettes, three minesweepers, four armed trawlers and two ack-ack ships.
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But the war grew wings and swept on and except for one Ju 88 who buzzed the field without biting yet drew 5000 rounds from the eager ack-ack boys.
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These were to include a close escort of six destroyers, four corvettes, three minesweepers, four armed trawlers and two ack-ack ships.
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Studying this catalog of wicked devices, Jane observed herself beginning to undergo that change from rookie to hardened field veteran, barely flinching at the sound of ack-ack guns coming from next door, where soldiers practiced shooting at a towed target.
A Covert Affair
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These were to include a close escort of six destroyers, four corvettes, three minesweepers, four armed trawlers and two ack-ack ships.
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The flight across the Channel was uneventful, but as soon as the formation crossed into German territory, ack-ack started opening up.
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The part where it gets really over the top for me, the part that makes it memorable is when Ack-Ack's father says to the youths that they will have to push the luxated eyeballs back into the eye sockets with a stick ..
Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local
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Ack-ack guns were operated by women for the first time in the war, preventing many home strikes by doodlebugs and the Luftwaffe.
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Heavy and light Japanese ack-ack trailed the runaway plane.
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Though when he tells the Iranians about shooting down their planes, I would like him to specify that it's not the United States, necessarily doing it, and it's certainly not me, but it's himself, Newt Gingrich, the John Wayne of WWIII, who will be behind the ack-ack gun.
Larry Beinhart: Ah, World War III, Newt Gingrich is Calling You