Word: beastes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Admiral William F. ("Bull") Halsey Jr., bellicose Third Fleet commander, let out one of his periodic anti-Jap bellows, this time for punishment of "all Japs guilty of war crimes without respect for rank or position." Paying his particular respects to Field Marshal Juichi Terauchi, "the beast ... in command during the death march of our prisoners on Bataan," he proposed: "For every one of our men who was murdered, officially or otherwise, a Jap officer two ranks higher should suffer the death penalty...
...purpose assembled there, the whole motion forward has the involuntariness of a convulsion. Even as you look from a plane steep into the sea, and note the amazingly regular patterns of the wakes, it is more as if a stone had been gashed by the claws of a great beast. And along the ashen island, men and machines flounder and founder as desperately, and with as little apparent clarity of intention, as if they themselves were phantasms of dust...
...Beast at Bay. The clearing of Manila Bay would open a great supply base for MacArthur's operations. But while the fighting continued, Manila was a city in torment...
...while later? Well, the President's daughter and No. 2 official White House hostess (who was all ready to go off to Yalta-see Foreign-Relations) had fixed that. It was simple. She called the A.T.C.'s priority officer, and asked him if A.T.C. would take the beast out to Elliott's new bride, Cinemactress Faye Emerson, in Hollywood...
Food for Man & Beast. Nearly a million Eastern dairymen and poultrymen anxiously peered into their feed bins. With no cars to load, the grain mills at Buffalo were more than 80,000 tons behind in their shipments. Six of the largest grain and flour mills closed down...