Word: bathed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blood bath of oppression which for centuries has laved the minarets and green poplars of the Balkans has also watered a glowing military spirit in little Serbia-an unconquerable will toward freedom...
Shoe Shine, Mister? Like a crazed animal, the Jap had purged himself after a savage campaign in Nanking's 1937 blood bath. But, whatever fears gnawed at hearts in U.S. homes last week, there was no confirmed evidence that the rape of Nanking had been repeated, not even at Hong Kong, where the British wrathfully protested Jap atrocities. A few cases of rape were reported there, and British troopers were said to have been put to work shining shoes. But, on the whole, what happens before complete order is restored in a captured city is often better left unsaid...
...burning up the road at a $17,000-a-week clip, leaving such streamlined models as Blithe Spirit and Angel Street to choke on its dust. Called Good Night Ladies, the show is the late Avery Hopwood's 22-year-old, towel-draped Ladies Night in a Turkish Bath, with hardly a line left that Hopwood would recognize, but with the situations all they were and then some...
...Fritz Baedeker, a new band of German tourists swarmed last week -with even less respect for British architectural treasures. Over York, Exeter, Norwich on successive nights Göring's Luftwaffe toured, dumping bomb cargo after vindictive bomb cargo on the startled cathedral towns. Another night they visited Bath, left that venerable watering place looking like a piece of old lace, ripped and soiled, but still worn with dignity...
After long, bitter weeks of misunderstanding, Chungking reported that the Chinese had at last reached an understanding with Great Britain's General Sir Archibald Wavell. King George conferred the Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath on Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. The Chinese now feel free to send additional troops into Burma. There they fight under their own commanders, who are in turn responsible to Chiang Kai-shek's Chief of Staff, U.S. Lieut. General Joseph W. Stilwell...