Word: apartment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...house flying a white flag the Americans treat it as they would a military obstacle. Here & there you come to a house that has been completely smashed and whose timbers are still smoldering. If resistance comes from a house, there is no dickering: a tank crew blows it apart, and rolls calmly on. After a few such examples the word seems to get around. The motto of the armormen is: if they want war they can have...
...Rhine-crossing paratroopers carried maps that glow in the dark. Amphibious troops as far apart as the Rhine and Okinawa had maps showing high and low water areas, slippery cliffs and rocks...
...three nine-year-old boys. On a Sunday afternoon they broke into Brooklyn's Public School 173 by cutting a window screen, rampaged until suppertime. When the janitor arrived next morning, he found windows shattered, pictures torn, walls smeared, light bulbs smashed, desks and chairs ripped apart, a grand piano stripped of keys and strings, the remnants of two bonfires, the leavings of crackers and jam in a domestic science kitchen, a total of 21 classrooms in shambles. The damage-which added up to $5,000 in a five-page, single-spaced report-was so extensive that school...
Monty had all the guns his careful heart desired-they were massed less than 22 feet apart in some places...
...will leave Japanese and American Christians farther apart than they have ever been before. "Japanese Christians will love their land and people in defeat with a more profound love than ever before. They will probably trust their leaders with less criticism and more loyalty." Missionaries returning to Japan will be greeted with deep suspicion. Young Americans who could replace them may balk at giving their lives to missionary service in an enemy country...