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    flak


    1. missiles and flak guns along the


    2. Shaking with every flak burst, grinding out every second,


    3. He gags as he falls, spilling his guts onto the front of his flak jacket and then onto the floor, and he turns away and starts to crawl as soon as he feels solid earth beneath his spine


    4. Maybe that would set back the progress of science, but he just didn’t want to deal with the flak


    5. would have gone along with it because of the flak he’d been receiving at the time: Jhordel’s success


    6. Some scrambled to throw on their flak jackets and helmets, while others, annoyed, stopped what they were doing, made it back to their cots, found their gear and, only because they had to, put it on half-assed


    7. I reached for my flak and flung it loosely around my body, not bothering to Velcro it together, and not caring to snap the chin strap on my helmet, as dust from 3 more explosions shimmered through the streaks of sunlight that darted across the room from small holes or cracks in the upper portion of the concrete block wall, near the ceiling


    8. green flak jackets – and the politicians and the Canadian Force Commanders


    9. He had had a difficult time attaching the shoulder harness to his lap belt which was tangled over the forty five strapped to his hip and the flak vest he sat on


    10. Bare-armed, wearing flak jackets and steel pots, they carried their weapons at the ready as the USAF Air Policemen and augmentees led them around the charred and devastated battle sites

    11. Six Alpha included Hanoi and the northwest railroad system, where flak was worse than Regensberg or the Romanian oil fields of WWII


    12. The Wild Weasel pilots, those who flew the two-seater F-105Fs loaded with electronic gear controlled by the Bear in the back seat, who fired exotic weapons to suppress flak and SAMs, looked as uncon�cerned as subway riders


    13. It's safer that way the flak is much thicker there --


    14. The Boston Whalers were transformed into gray colored war vessels outfitted with flak protective devices, a portable radio, signal flares and a crew carrying small arms


    15. Unlike younger Flak helpers we were well trained militarily and I expected that, sooner or later, our battery would be called off to either the Western or the Eastern Front, a prospect I much dreaded


    16. To add to the confusion, together with six other men I was redeployed to a different RAD Flak battery located in the Braunschweig-Hannover area close to the Herman Göring steelworks


    17. In the meantime the police were alerted and had thrown on their flak jackets


    18. „The other day Peter reckoned there"d be no flak over Cherie Culworth"s murder because no one would mourn her


    19. cadet Ima Patsy, 20, was stabbed to death by fellow cadet, Mark Myword, 23, who was trying to prove that a knife could penetrate the flak vest that Patsy was wearing


    20. � With the two other self-propelled flak guns in his position destroyed, the desperate German was able to fire a long burst at one of the aircraft of the second wave

    21. Almost immediately, flak shells burst around them and they were attacked by a dozen Messerschmitt’s


    22. To send these slow-moving planes in daylight against the ferocious flak and heavy fighter escorts was certain death


    23. a few of the Beauforts found the German ships, but due to the lack of fighter protection and the concentration of flak; dropped their torpedoes at maximum range, missed the target and returned to base


    24. Most of the guns were mounted on the tops of concrete bunkers, flak towers, and on the roofs of the submarine pens


    25. The first wave arrived at 23h 30 and ran into heavy flak


    26. As the Lancaster’s came over the mountain range they were met with intense anti-aircraft fire from Tirpitz, shore batteries and flak ships, but the battleship herself lay clearly visible


    27. Not only were losses to Allied planes, anti aircraft and fighter defences severe, but as the German aircraft returned over heavily defended areas of their own front at low level, they were fired on by 'friendly' flak


    28. He piloted his Wellington aircraft through vicious flak to a height of one hundred feet to ensure accuracy and dropped his bomb load to inflict severe damage


    29. “Dammit,” Higgins said, “we’re going to catch some flak over this


    30. A flak jacket would have to do

    31. Dart was dressed in a flak jacket, as was Holland, who aimed a rifle at the house


    32. same time leveling the flak gun at the satchel


    33. Their taloned hands sliced away at my flak vest and bear arms unmercifully


    34. They sliced off my flak vest and with it my shirt


    35. “They want locations of flak batteries


    36. From the ground came antiaircraft fire, including flak, which burst into razor-sharp metal shards that sliced planes open


    37. In confusion, someone yelled, “Flak!” Then a second wave, a consequence of the force of the explosion hitting the ground and then ricocheting upward, smacked them, and the plane heaved again


    38. My flak jacket prevented it from penetrating my body, but the concussion stopped my heart


    39. The last thing she wanted was a will contest between the Crumps and the Mountain Trust, with her as the star witness taking flak from both sides


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    Synonyms for "flak"

    ack-ack ack-ack gun antiaircraft antiaircraft gun flack flak pom-pom attack blast fire flack catcher flak catcher

    "flak" definitions

    a slick spokesperson who can turn any criticism to the advantage of their employer


    intense adverse criticism


    artillery designed to shoot upward at airplanes