Word: chinamen
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...same front, Ethiopians acquitted themselves gallantly and well in their first sizable battle, but bemoaned the fact that they took no prisoners. Said Captain Ayalew H. Selassie:* "We do everything we can to capture the Chinamen, but they have been told we eat prisoners, and won't surrender. We are all hunters. We like to take the enemy alive, but it is becoming very difficult in battle." On patrol, added Selassie, it was easier. "We crawl in the brush a leetle, we look a leetle, we wait a leetle, then we crawl a leetle more and pretty soon...
...Tunner's men noticed on the airfield 25 loaves of specially baked and blessed Moslem bread, the remnants of four tons flown in to supply the Turkish Brigade. The pilot carefully poured gasoline on the bread and set it afire before he departed. Said he: "I thought the Chinamen would like some toast...
...event that could still upset the balance of war against the U.S. was direct intervention by Red China or Red Russia. Said one U.S. officer last week: "I am not sweating out the North Koreans anymore. I am sweating out the Chinamen...
About Fantasia: Probably no single occasion has demonstrated more compellingly the visual possibilities in great music. When you or I listen to the Nutcracker Suite, we have a vague picture of toy flutes, Chinamen, Arabians, sugarplum fairies--anything the program tells us to hear. When Walt Disney hears it, there are created whole new imaginative worlds of dewdrops, mushrooms, tadpoles, thistles, and autumn leaves. The more visual-minded you are, probably the more you will enjoy Fantasia; plenty of people on the other hand are going to find the patterns on the screen nothing but a distraction. Particularly...
...Rice and Chinamen. It was environment that settled the Chinamen on rice instead of something else. Environment. And from the wisdom gained by a half year's application, Geography I could scribble, "Because it is half way between the Navy Yard and the Boston Common...