Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chinese were bombed to death because they thought they would be safe from air attack if they hid under trees and bushes -a gay new game was being played last week. It was called "Get the Traitors." Five papier-mâché puppet heads were arranged on the ground. Each represented a Chinese who had sold out to the Japanese. Several paces away laughing Chungking citizens lined up for chances, at 5? a throw, to try to ring the heads with evergreen wreaths. Whoever succeeded in "crowning" the puppet which represented the most important traitor of them all, Wang...
...nearly a fortnight of continuous attack the Russians had gained only a few outposts, and their tanks ground over the bones of the dead that strewed the battlefield. So jammed were their roads and railroads with fresh troops and supplies that they left their wounded to freeze to death where they fell. The Finns retreated cautiously, carrying their wounded with them, for to Finland's tiny army every man was precious. How many men the Russians used, nobody knew. It did not matter; they had all they could deploy and replacements for all who fell. From the other fronts...
...flank that cut them off from Koivisto. Between Lake Muolaa and the Vuoksi River the Finnish lines broke. Muolaa village fell and the Russians poured into the narrow strip of land just west of Lake Muolaa. Around the north shore of the lake they pushed and, with only flat ground ahead, they soon made contact with the divisions at Kamara. This broke the back of the Mannerheim Line...
...included in the exhibit. Grosz shows, by means of florid, fleshy color, the essential similarity existing between a man and the side of raw meat which he is preparing to cut. Placed on a table behind which this butcher-like individual is standing, are plates and bowls which contain ground meats, salamis, and other foods representing the products for which the carcass of the slaughtered animal is utilized. In the lower left corner of the painting, there is a potted plant, the pale green leaves of which serve as a restful contrast to the warm color used elsewhere. Thus...
...weapons were intermingled with the bones of long-extinct bison. Skeptical anthropologists first wrote off this association as accidental. Then Jesse Dade Figgins of Colorado, one of the Folsom pioneers, found two points actually between the ribs of a fossil bison. He left the exhibit undisturbed in the ground, summoned anthropologists to come and look. They did, and this time agreed that the bone-&-weapon association was authentic. The weapons were judged to be 15,000 or more years...