Word: die
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...morning last week Shipping Clerk Karl Wehn of Greenfield Tap & Die Corp. opened the company shipping room in downtown Manhattan and found that someone had been there before him. A three-foot hole gaped through a brick wall into an adjoining building. Empty were shelves and storage bins. Missing were valuable, high-speed drills and carbon-steel drills used in machine tools for airplane-engine and munitions manufacture-drills, that had been packed in cloth and straw and wrapped in brown paper, ready for shipment...
When they get to Española (Haiti) Don Narciso sees what just six years of white rule can do: Christianized Indians who die rather than work and who, through mere imprisonment, die in a few days "like fish in a bucket." Hardly has Don Narciso got his shore legs when he witnesses the burning alive of sixteen here tics; he sees next what happens to 20,000 Indians in spontaneous desperate rebellion. Stark naked, all of them, men, women and children, they advance in a brown wave, using stones and sharpened sticks, to dissolve into panic before the first...
That other necessary component of the Fascist State, the single party, promptly made its appearance. Deputy Marcel Déat ("I do not want to die for Danzig") announced that he had declined a Cabinet post, instead would form a French Uniform Party to support Leader-Designate Laval "which would place an authoritarian people's movement at the side of the authoritarian regime." Party planks: 1) France must do nothing to compete with German industry; 2) compulsory labor service for youth; 3) "France for the French...
...defeat, in self-fulfillment or in frustration, we will not dissolve our partnership with God. He wages no Blitzkrieg against the forces of destruction and evil, but acts inexorably like the orderly succession of the hours, and brings doom upon the haughty pretenders to divine prerogatives. . . . Israel dare not die-because humanity needs its message...
...until the campaign is well along will it be clear just what, as President, Willkie could or would do for U. S. business. Die-hard Old Guards were still grumbling last week at his endorsement of many a New Deal reform. New Dealers pointed out that if rearmament is to proceed, no candidate can make an honest campaign issue of budget balancing or lower taxes. But Wall Street believed (in the words of Financial Writer Ralph Hendershot) that Willkie "will get more for the Government's money." And thousands of U. S. businessmen, turning their backs on President Roosevelt...