Word: bereft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the two mysteries merged: astonished Antonio Agostini, bereft husband of the "Pajama Girl," wriggled desperately, impaled upon the point of Mrs. Flemington's relentless pen. Police charged the beefy sometime silk merchant, now a waiter, with murdering his wife, Linda Platt, daughter of Mrs. Flemington by an earlier marriage...
Terming the Panay bombing "a shocking blunder," Ambassador Saito said that there is "no compensation which mortal man can make that is adequate for the families bereft...
...homes received official notices of sons who had been . . . 'lost in action in performance of his duty and in service to his country.' . . . We will keep green the memories of these young soldier-heroes, who have given . . . their lives to the cause of freedom. Homes are bereft and friends saddened, but the grief should be mitigated by the consciousness that to die for one's country is not to have lived in vain...
...China side the dead general lay where he had fallen. His men, shouting their war cries, hurried down to the river and sniped at the Jap as he ran. Down the road into Burma fled the Red Dragon, broken, bereft of his trucks and equipment. Six American youngsters and the Cloud Dragon had saved a bitter...
...their hairy hands. They had the range of every position behind Mariveles. The Jap found that out as battery after battery was smashed and silenced. When he tried to move up more guns, the sharp-eyed observers on The Rock spotted his dust, called for fire, and got it. Bereft of aerial observation, which would have made things much simpler, the men on Corregidor were doing their best, and it was still good...