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...division's proud, rugged commander, tall, slender, 38-year-old Major General James ("Slim Jim") Gavin, marched out into the avenue. The 82nd's bayonet-tipped phalanxes moved out behind him, and the cold wind sent a contagious roar of applause rolling for miles through the great city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: The 13,000 | 1/21/1946 | See Source »

There was another difference. F.D.R., a great political tactician, had the knack of making his speeches stick to a single issue, as sharp as a bayonet. He deployed his strength so that he could usually choose his own enemies. Usually they turned-up in the guise of black reactionaries or members of the lunatic fringe, whom he could belabor with abandon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Truman v. Congress | 1/14/1946 | See Source »

...Japan's few surviving liberal lead ers. Said he: "I will do my best to lead the nation back to self-respect. . . ." His Cabinet included no outright warmakers, no great statesmen of any kind. One of his Government's first measures: abolition of bayonet and jujitsu drill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Revolution by Decree | 10/15/1945 | See Source »

Once again Admiral William F. ("Bull") Halsey performed for the photographers. Aboard his flagship, the mighty Missouri, he used a bayonet to slice a cake iced like a Japanese flag. But he was unhappy. He was about to go into Japan, and almost everybody expected him to ride the Emperor's white horse when he got there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: A Horse on Halsey | 9/3/1945 | See Source »

...greatest Christian city in the Orient." It shows, still more dreadfully, the destruction wrought upon the mild, brave people who lived in it: children who were shot down as they prayed; gnarled stacks of bodies burned alive; people who were killed with their hands tied behind them; a bayoneted mother & child at the feet of the Virgin. It shows, among the living, bayonet wounds, and the agonized collapse of a woman who has been raped; and, in the faces of those physically untouched, wounds of the soul no less piteous to see. It shows the starved American prisoners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Aug. 20, 1945 | 8/20/1945 | See Source »

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