Word: lined
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...propose that we line up all Germans and shoot them down, though I think I could shoot my share of Germans, including German women, German children, German grandpas and German grandmas without any unduly unpleasant digestive aftereffects, albeit I am generally considered a mild, kindly woman. . . . But is there anything in the obligations of civilization to prevent sterilization of all Germans? . . And wouldn't that eventually wipe them off the face of the earth...
...power and its democracy to a test. Both passed, with honors. Some 17,000,000 free men, aged 21 to 35, did what they had been told to do: register for the draft. They went to appointed places. They stood in line. They answered questions. They signed small, imperious cards. They buried a tradition: that the U. S., in peace, never requires its men to take up arms. Henceforth, whether or not they were destined for actual service, they had submitted themselves to a kind and degree of supervision which the U. S. citizenry had never known...
...Army agree to put black and white in the same outfits on an equality basis, they reckoned on a thumping overturn of precedent. Only four Negroes have ever graduated from West Point (none from Annapolis) and today the Army has only two regular Negro line officers: Colonel Benjamin Oliver Davis, commanding officer of Harlem's 369th Coast Artillery (National Guard), and his West Pointer son, Lieut. B. O. Davis Jr., military instructor at Tuskegee Institute. Before 1940's emergency the Army had only four Negro regiments of regulars (two cavalry, two infantry); all are officered by white...
...last week well-plucked Condor turned amphibian. Taking to the water, it signed a contract with Snapp Navigation Co. of Brazil for service up the Amazon. The new river line will connect Condor's coastal route to its line running up along the Bolivian-Brazilian frontier, will give its systems in Ecuador, Bolivia and Peru access to an Atlantic outlet. If President Vargas' three-week-old promise of domestic colonization and agricultural development in the Amazon goes through, Condor will have a wedge into the heart of Brazil's richest territory...
...meat for the R. A. F.'s fighter defense, they swarmed in over London. They also visited Liverpool, Manchester and other inland towns, to whose inhabitants the bombing of London is only horrid hearsay. Most of them stayed at great altitude because their converted Messerschmitts, with a red line painted on the windscreen for a "bomb sight," were no good for precision work and, anyway, the purpose of their "total" war was indiscriminate damage and terror among London's civilian populace...