Word: armes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week, in a proper climax, plain Harry Truman will climb aboard the Missouri, eat lunch and review the 50 war ships moored off Manhattan. The day -Oct. 27 - is Navy Day, the birthday of the late Theodore Roosevelt, whode clared: "The Navy of the United States is the right arm of the United States. . . . Woe to our country if we permit that right arm to become palsied...
...victory was a triumph for the concept of the complete integration of the three dimensions of war-ground, sea and air. By a thorough use of each arm in conjunction with the corresponding utilization of the other two, the enemy was reduced to . . . helplessness. By largely avoiding methods involving the separate use of the services . . . our combined power forced the surrender with relative life loss probably unparalleled in any campaigns in history...
...ahead of the front lines. Twice he was wounded. Grenade fragments ripped his legs, knocked him down and out of action. But when other corpsmen tried to carry him back, he crawled off the litter, sent them to another wounded man. Then a shellburst shattered his arm. He lashed a rifle stock to the arm, managed to crawl hundreds of yards to safety...
...heard her man hum a few snatches: "All I can promise is a cozy little cottage. . . ." As usual, win or lose, Steve had bran flakes with peaches for dinner. But Grimm had a trump to play. For ten days he had rested Claude Passeau's ancient and ailing arm. After the third game, Lillian Grimm's floor-pacer passed a restful night...
...Sophia Litwinska, Polish: "The victims . . . were hauled to the crematorium where they were dumped out like potatoes. Inside the chamber there were cries, tears -people were shaking and striking each other. Then I noticed yellow fumes entering the room. . . . My name was called. I raised my arm, for my voice could not answer. . . . Then someone pulled me out of the chamber, I don't know...