Word: skulk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Skulk, Ribs, Eardrums. Legislators feel that the one sure way to stabilize the country is to fire officials who use Japanese methods. The National Assembly claims that the administration never really enforced the national traitors' law against Koreans who collaborated with the Japanese. An Assembly committee established its own jails, courts, investigators and armed police and hauled in collaborators, including high officials of the regular police. Last week's police raid disrupted this Assembly "law enforcement" system...
...Antwerp people close doors softly and talk in low voices. Hollow-eyed citizens, clinging to their homes, skulk through the ruined streets. Antwerp is a city of suspense-until suspense is broken by the thunder of guns and the put-put of V-1 robot bombs...
They could travel only by night; by day Jap aircraft ruled the skies and they had to skulk in coves. At last the PT put in at Mindanao; a battered Flying Fortress took the MacArthurs on to Australia...