Word: baptismal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wards, men with legs scarred by vein surgery and men with tantalum plates in their skulls read books on diesel engines, cattle raising, soil conservation. (They cheerfully show their wounds to anyone willing to look.) In the recreation hall, some of the wounded watch the Army training film Baptism of Fire and hear the day's war news. A man in the occupational-therapy department is absorbed in making a set of four-leaf-clover buttons of clay...
Battlefronts Writer John Walker is a veteran of the war in Europe (he was one of the last correspondents to escape from Warsaw before the Nazis goose-stepped in) but he got his Pacific baptism by fire when our troops swarmed ashore at Angaur...
...court with Publishers Farrar & Rinehart to settle a baffling question: How big is a book? Author Carmer claimed that he had fulfilled his Farrar & Rinehart contract with a 40,000-word history of The Submarine Sturgeon, famed for Lieut. Commander William L. Wright's terse description of its baptism in battle: "Sturgeon no longer virgin." The publishers claimed that he still owes them a book because his submarine history was not "full-length." New York Supreme Court Judge Lloyd Church decided to let a jury decide the legal length of a full-length book...
...days after the assault on Peleliu Admiral Wilkinson made his second move. He gave Major General Paul J. Mueller's 81st ("Wildcat") Army Division its baptism of fire by sending it ashore on southernmost, phosphate-producing Angaur Island, six miles south of Peleliu. Initial resistance was lighter this time...
...aviation experts and other insiders had become well acquainted in recent months with the Army's big new B-29 bomber, but to the public at large the Superfortress was a nebulous thing of mystery and hope. What the people waited for was the B-29's baptism in combat. That came last week, with a dramatic raid on Japan's steel industry (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS). Then the War Department allowed Boeing to tell nearly everything about its current prize package...