Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...illustrated a familiar truth: the Japanese flair for exact imitation wanders occasionally into the realms of caricature. Last week Japanese leaders were busy as bits of carbon paper trying to copy European totalitarian techniques, and this vituperation was supposed to sound like a last gruff word before a crushing blow, a Hitlerish warning before total obliteration...
Last week no major political voice was raised against conscription. No echo was heard to Kansas' old Arthur Capper, who in a radio debate with Senator Burke found peacetime conscription a blow "at the heart of personal liberty and personal freedom." A Gallup Poll found peacetime conscription already approved by 64% of men of military age and their families. It had long ago been approved by George Washington, its first advocate, who thought it essential to his ideal of a "Respectably Defensive Posture" required by freedom from foreign alliances...
...noises was punctuated by bursts of fireworks. Josephine Chmiel, candy-counter girl at the Polish Building, curiously watched a cluster of men, some of whom were uniformed police, standing in the roadway. One of them stooped over. As he straightened up again, a stupendous sound struck Josephine like a blow. The cluster of men vanished...
...over to preserve them from Adolf Hitler's total war. Contingents of German war prisoners also landed in Canada to be sent in boxcars to prison camps far from civilization. In mid-ocean one man "scuttled himself" by leaping from a porthole. Others on arrival struck a final blow for Germany by destroying the British gas masks which had been issued them...
...British had scuttled her deliberately. Afterwards the Germans, who ruthlessly attacked hospital ships at Dunkirk, had to content them selves with grumbling that the British should have marked the ship so that it would not be attacked. The British announced that the U-boat commander who struck the blow was Germany's Scapa Flow hero, Lieut. Captain Günther Prien...