Word: bents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...turned up at airports with wives & children, or with concubines, hoping to take them along, but most showed good military discipline and resigned themselves to discomfort. The crowding was so great that they jampacked the floor in a sitting position, each man's back against another's bent knees. Because ground troops have a tendency to airsickness, an open barrel in the middle of the cabin was standard equipment...
...idol of Grandmother Dupin's house. Once, in the dead of night, Aurore was wakened by her tutor and led to the family burial plot. "Do you believe," the tutor asked the shivering girl, "that the dead deserve more from us than prayers and tears?" Then he bent over the newly opened plot, detached Captain Dupin's skull from the rotting skeleton and held it out to Aurore, saying: "Kiss this relic that was your father." Aurore obeyed...
...grew up. Having become an officer, a hero and the accepted equal of white Europeans, Brett Charles (Gordon Heath) has a new and far less subservient conception of himself and his race. When he takes some trifling liberties, the Senator (Charles Waldron) gets so blazing mad, so hell-bent on punishing the boy, that he pins on him the theft of a missing watch...
...Shigemitsu, doffing his silk hat and peeling a yellow glove from his right hand, limped forward to sign the document and was assisted to a chair. With a blank, expressionless face he composed himself and signed. Umezu followed. He slowly drew off his white gloves and, without sitting, bent his stocky body forward and affixed the authority of the Japanese Army to the acknowledgment of total defeat...
...with it, MacArthur rubbed the salt of Bataan into their wounds, insisting they use the word as their planes' radio call. During the halfway halt at Ie Shima, one of the Jap crewmen appeared with a bouquet for "peace and friendship." Not an arm was bent in salute. Gaping G.I.s showed more interest in the booted, fur-hatted Jap pilots than in the stubby little men walking over to the Army Transport Command plane (a C-54 Skymaster) assigned to carry them to Manila...