Word: cementation
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...German militarist class with its agricultural domains must be completely depressed and big German industry completely depressed and big German industry completely controlled, so that proportionate encouragement will be given to the liberal and socialist elements within Germany itself that must bring about democracy. Second, we must firmly cement our British-Russian-American alliance so that the Germans will be faced with the permanent threat of two-front...
...while another in the same field has had only a 6% increase. Like differentials apply between industries: the hourly wage rates in autos are up 9.6%, in refrigerators 17.4%, in building materials 19.4% over prewar rates. Steel is the same price as in 1942, lumber is 15% higher, cement is 3% higher...
Then three of us sat down in a sacred park near by on the edge of a cement fence built around a pedestaled, steel-shelled Buddha which had suffered considerably from shell fragments-hits in the chest and behind the right ear. We opened a pack of K rations for breakfast...
...hardly dug into the can of pork and egg yolk when a bullet whizzed close overhead. We hit the dirt behind the cement fence. A marine yelled: "I saw him. He jumped into a cave over there in the rock quarry." Several other marines ran toward the quarry-one of several dozen on Saipan. Caves in the sides of these scooped-out affairs are favorite hiding places for Japs. Then began the familiar game of "flush the sniper...
...Coming across" has been the leitmotiv of the Somoza regime. Cattlemen pay through import-&-export levies, marketing and slaughtering licenses. Gold-mine operators pay through special "taxes." Those who deal in mahogany, cinchona bark, milk, hides, tallow, cement and liquor pay in devious but nonetheless painful ways. Nicaraguans quip about an alphabetical list of Somoza rackets running from A to Z; they say that X stands for rackets unknown to the public...