Word: columnized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cattle were driven away several days ago. All that is left is the poultry, which the children are now chasing in the courtyards, while their mother, tears streaming down her cheeks, cuts the throats of cocks and hens, bitterly cursing the cause of it all. As the column leaves, the night sky is illuminated by the glare of burning villages and gunfire flashes. With the baggage go the old men and women, mothers and small children, the sick and crippled. The able-bodied will remain behind and fight side by side with the Red Army troops...
...rushed up from the rear of the group, and shouted out "column right-march" just in the nick of time to save some valuable units of Uncle Sam's Navy...
Miller has received several coaching offers, but none has been exactly of the sort he wants. One job he has decided to accept, however, is that of writing a weekly column for the Boston Globe in which he will analyze the chances of the Crimson team every Sunday...
Quit Stalling. Caught between two implacable enemies, Bombay industrialists urged an end to an "intolerable situation." The ultra-British Times of India said: "Authorities have suspected for some time the presence of a Fifth Column in this country, and political turmoil has probably given strength to this element* to come out into the open. In one way such activity helps the authorities to locate danger spots, but the urgent problem is to bring about a better frame of mind among the general public...
Last week TIME published a picture and story describing what the U.S. Army said was a plot by a rural fifth column to point out military objectives to enemy bombers by means of cunningly contrived ground markers. TIME erred. So did some 1,900 U.S. newspapers which accepted the story in good faith from Army press-relations officers. The story, though not a deliberate fake, revealed a fantastic miscarriage of information among Army airmen, brass hats and FBI. The facts...