Llewellyn describes the thunderous explosions rolling along the shore as every ship in the Allied fleet was blazing away.
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Around the year 2083, its accretion rate will rise catastrophically, spilling mass at incredibly high rates onto the white dwarf, with this material blazing away.
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It's a game of momentum: you move forward toward the enemy, blazing away until you run out of ammo and then switching weapons to stay on the offensive without missing a beat.
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About New York The streetlights along a western stretch of Central Park were "blazing away in the middle of a sunny day," said Bill Hewitt, who lives on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
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When Roger Waters assembled an all-star cast of musicians to perform the rock opera The Wall live in Berlin in July 1990, Faithfull played the part of Pink's overprotective mother. Her musical career rebounded for the third time during the early 1990s with the live album Blazing Away, which featured Faithfull revisiting songs she had performed over the course of her career. Blazing Away was recorded at St. Ann's Cathedral in Brooklyn. The 13 selections include "Sister Morphine", a cover of Edith Piaf's "Les Prisons du Roy", and "Why D'Ya Do It?" from Broken English.
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In his review for Allmusic, Ned Raggett notes that "Fully established as a dramatic, innovative singer with astonishing appeal and energy thanks to her string of excellent '80s releases, Faithfull concluded her renaissance decade with Blazing Away, an excellent live album... Faithfull and the players fit hand in glove track for track, with the emphasis on subtler arrangements and performances suiting the hushed, striking atmosphere of the performance".
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I was pretty certain that I had hit his petrol tank. Behind me, Leycester was still blazing away. He was using tracer (incendiary bullets), and it may have been one of his bullets that ignited the petrol pouring from the Hun's ruptured tank. When I caught sight of the Albatros again, it was burning like a torch and side-slipping towards the ground, trailing a streamer of smoke.
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The tanker, blazing away, was still guarded by three escorts until abandoned at sunset, when Flasher sank her with one torpedo. The two destroyers, both found after the war to have been sunk, were Kishinami and Iwanami.However, the destroyer Iwanami did not exist. Flashers war patrol reported that her count of destroyers may have been inaccurate, but this seems to have been ignored, and it is likely that Flasher actually finished off previously crippled Kishinami and did not hit any other destroyer.
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Simultaneously blazing away at the entrance to the > dugout to prevent its occupants from firing and firing his machinegun at the > other German nest, he forced 5 Germans in each position to surrender. > Determined to rid the area of all Germans, 2d Lt. Dervishian continued his > advance alone. Noticing another machinegun position beside a house, he > picked up an abandoned machine pistol and forced 6 more Germans to surrender > by spraying their position with fire. Unable to locate additional targets in > the vicinity, 2d Lt. Dervishian conducted these prisoners to the rear.
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The German 9th Army moved forward to attack the Romanian line in the Geisterwald on 5 October. The initial German attack succeeded in ascending the steep slope without apparent difficulty, but before they could exploit their gains, the Germans had to beat off several powerful Romanian counterattacks. Early on that day, German artillery opened fire in a hellish concert that the Germans have not experienced for a long time. Towards midday, as the German guns were still blazing away at the Romanian fortifications, the Romanians launched a counterattack.
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Broken English made #57 in the UK album charts and #82 in the US. "The Ballad of Lucy Jordan" was released as a single simultaneously with the LP in October 1979. The title track was issued as a single in January 1980. Faithfull included five tracks from the album on her 1990 live recording Blazing Away: "Broken English", "Guilt", "The Ballad of Lucy Jordan", "Working Class Hero" and "Why D'Ya Do It". In 1996, "Witches' Song" was covered by Juliana Hatfield for the soundtrack of the film The Craft.
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A hugely successful concert and cabaret tour accompanied by Paul Trueblood at the piano, culminated in the filming, at the Montreal Jazz Festival, of the DVD Marianne Faithfull Sings Kurt Weill. In 1998 Faithfull released A Perfect Stranger: The Island Anthology, a two-disc compilation that chronicled her years with Island Records. It featured tracks from her albums Broken English, Dangerous Acquaintances, A Child's Adventure, Strange Weather, Blazing Away, and A Secret Life, as well as several B sides and unreleased tracks. Faithfull's 1999 DVD Dreaming My Dreams contained material about her childhood and parents, with historical video footage going back to 1964 and interviews with the artist and several friends who have known her since childhood.
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The following year, St. Ann's and the Brooklyn Academy of Music instigated the reunion of Cale and Lou Reed by commissioning Songs for Drella, their celebrated song cycle in remembrance of Andy Warhol. Intrigued by the range and ambition of St. Ann's performances, artists began to take increasing interest and helped to further St. Ann's international reputation under the leadership of founding Artistic Director Susan Feldman and Program Director Janine Nichols. In 1989, record producer Hal Willner brought Marianne Faithfull to St. Ann's for a pair of concerts: a retrospective released by Island Records as "Blazing Away" and "definitive" performances as Anna in the Brecht/Weill masterwork, The Seven Deadly Sins (NY Times).
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Van Orden and 3rd Marine regiment took part in the landing at Cape Torokina under heavy enemy fire on November 1, 1943, and Van Orden participated in the main landing. He distinguished himself and received the Navy Cross, the United States military's second-highest decoration awarded for valor in combat. His official Navy Cross citation reads: One Marine witnessed him, > blazing away in the direction of the enemy with his pistol ... After > emptying a magazine at the invisible (at least to me) target, Van Orden > stepped back from the rear wall of the bunker, cleared, reloaded, and > holstered his pistol ... with a self-satisfied grin on his face as if he had > just completed a successful string of rapid fire. For his heroics, he earned the nickname "The Beast".
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Alanna Nash of Stereo Review commended the musicians whom Faithfull had chosen to back her—longtime guitarist Reynolds was joined by former Band member Garth Hudson and pianist Dr. John. Nash was also impressed with the album's autobiographical tone, noting "Faithfull's gritty alto is a cracked and halting rasp, the voice of a woman who's been to hell and back on the excursion fare which, of course, she has." The reviewer extolled Faithfull as "one of the most challenging and artful of women artists," and Rolling Stone writer Fred Goodman asserted: "Blazing Away is a fine retrospective – proof that we can still expect great things from this greying, jaded contessa." A Collection of Her Best Recordings was released in 1994 by Island Records to coincide with the release of the Faithfull autobiography; the two products originally shared the same cover art.
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It contained Faithfull's updated version of "As Tears Go By" from Strange Weather, several cuts from Broken English and A Child's Adventure and a song written by Patti Smith scheduled for inclusion on an Irish AIDS benefit album. This track, "Ghost Dance", suggested to Faithfull by a friend who later died of AIDS, was made with a trio of old friends: Stones' drummer Charlie Watts and guitarist Ron Wood backed Faithfull's vocals on the song, while Keith Richards coproduced it. The retrospective album also featured one live track, "Times Square", from Blazing Away as well as a new Faithfull original, "She", penned with composer and arranger Angelo Badalamenti to be released the following year on A Secret Life, with additional songs co written with Badalamenti. Faithfull also sang "Love is Teasin," an Irish folk standard, with The Chieftains on their album The Long Black Veil, released in 1995.
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Slater was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross. His citation read: > The President of the United States of America takes pride in presenting the > Navy Cross (Posthumously) to Seaman Second Class Frank Olga Slater, United > States Naval Reserve, for extraordinary heroism and devotion to duty in > action against the enemy while serving as a Gunner aboard the Heavy Cruiser > USS San Francisco (CA-38), during an engagement with Japanese naval forces > near Savo Island in the Solomons on the night of November 12 and 13, 1942. > Courageously refusing to abandon his gun in the face of an onrushing > Japanese torpedo plane, Seaman Second Class Slater, with cool determination > and utter disregard for his own personal safety, kept blazing away until the > hostile craft plunged out of the sky in a flaming dive and crashed on his > station. His grim perseverance and relentless devotion to duty in the face > of certain death were in keeping with the highest traditions of the United > States Naval Service.
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