Word: ashes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Flame and Floggings. With this revelation in mass murder came flesh-creeping details of other crimes from Germany's own cancerous camps. Examples: ¶ For breaches of discipline at Buchenwald prisoners were dispatched in wholesale lots. They were marched into an incinerator and there converted into bone-ash in four fast, efficient stages: 1) pushed down a 13-ft. chute to a strangling room; 2) garrotted by SS guards with a short double-end noose; 3) hung on hooks along a side wall (those who still struggled on the hooks were stunned with wooden mallets); 4) carted...
Married. Sidney B. Wood Jr., 33, one time Wimbledon tennis champion, ex-Davis Cup star; and Anne Winter Kiess Rodenberg, 25, ash-blond socialite, daughter of the late, longtime U.S. Representative Edgar Kiess from Pennsylvania; both for the second time; in Manhattan, two weeks after his divorce from Edith Betts Wood (TIME, April...
...bitter pills compounded in secret at Yalta was taken from the bottle and chucked publicly into the ash heap. Five days after Franklin Roosevelt had said that the U.S. would demand three votes in the assembly and support Russia's claim to a like number, the President had changed his mind-the U.S. would ask for only one vote after...
...These atolls, these island harbors, will have been paid for by the sacrifice of American blood. They will have been scooped out of sand and rock, coral and volcanic ash, by a generation of Americans giving their service, their ingenuity, and their money. . . . How long can the United States afford to continue a cycle of fighting and building and winning and giving away-only to fight and build and win and give again? Rich as we are, we do not have the human or physical resources to dissipate our patrimony, generation after generation, in this manner." Naval operations in World...
...newsreel taken by Navy, Coast Guard and Marine Corps cameramen of the fiercest fight in Marine Corps history, is worthy, or almost worthy, to rank with such great war records as With the Marines at Tarawa (TIME, March 20, 1944). Shot chiefly on a terrain as shapeless as an ash-heap, as mortally featureless and cryptic as the flank of Captain Ahab's White Whale in their ultimate engagement, it lacks the relative coherence and clarity of most of its predecessors. It demonstrates, in fact, more clearly than any previous film, that war in its crucial essence is neither...