Word: dumdum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Perhaps the most contradictory phrase of the 20th Century is "civilized warfare." Also, the idea that it is all right to shoot people with a steel-jacketed but not a dumdum bullet, to run them through with bayonets but not choke them with gas, to destroy their vessels with a battleship but not a submarine-all this is quite confusing to some uncomplicated minds. Lately the democracies have been trying to "humanize"' the wars in Spain and China, chiefly by urging the cessation of bombing behind the lines...
...ordinary times is a gentleman who wants to re-establish the status quo ante. The New Deal wants to do precisely that-as a matter of fact it is status quo George III or Diocletian. The process has not attained the label of 'liberal.' . . . They are dumdum words used to assassinate men and then to plant bitter onions on their graves...
...when we arrive at the spot we tell them they are to be put on trial. Then we walk around behind them, as if to remove the gags, and shoot them through the back of the head. In this way the face is unrecog-nizable'-as the dumdum bullet passes through the head it mushrooms and as it emerges 'blows off the face from behind...
...that time, though, the Man of the Year was fully in the making. He flashed off cables smoking hot with pathos, righteousness, defiance and more-in-sorrow-than-in-anger which made front pages throughout Christendom. It was sheer genius for Haile Selassie to deny that Italians used dumdum bullets instead of charging them with that military offense. It was again genius for him to cable out that in Ethiopia the local press had been ordered by the Emperor never to apply discourteous epithets to Benito Mussolini. Finally only genius could enable the Emperor to put himself-a frail, exquisite...
Italians charged that Ethiopians were firing dumdum bullets from rifles and machine guns made in England, Belgium and the U. S. last week. The compliment was returned by U. S. Presbyterian Missionary Doctor Robert W. Hockman of Jijiga. Said he: "Even the use of dumdum bullets-and I am certain they are being used-does not affect the Ethiopian warriors, who by tradition are accustomed to all sorts of the most unspeakable barbarity. This country cannot be overcome by mechanized armies. It is remarkable to see thousands of warriors spring from the grass and come from behind rocky hills when...