Word: counte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They had lost a base within 400 miles of their home islands, only 1,100 miles from Tokyo; this base would soon be the springboard for vast assaults on their homeland. They had lost (by preliminary count) 98,564 men killed and 4,500 captured...
...many Senators were not willing to jump on the speed wagon. The Truman Administration could count on most of the Democrats, but the key to a two-thirds vote was held by such Republican backers of world organization as Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg and Ohio's Harold Hitz Burton. Said Delegate-Senator Vandenberg last week: "This will not be the battle of the century." But he would oppose any clubbing of the Senate into approval. And last week when trim, grey Harold Burton delivered a scholarly, three-hour defense of San Francisco, only three Senators were present...
...rapid affair. First Police Inspector Enrico Morazzini confirmed what he wrote to the court some days ago. Judge Maroni interrupted: "There is no need to read it out. The description of the tortures is too horrible for decent people to hear." Then it was the turn of Cinema Producer Count Luchino, Visconti di Modrone, a witness for the defense...
...Count: "Correct, except for the ending. Koch never released me. He held me without food or drink for five days in a cell where two other inmates were tied by the wrists to the ceiling...
...week's end, with the service vote still to come, the count was: Progressive Conservatives, 67 legislature seats (out of 90); Liberals, 13; CCFers, 7; Labor Progressives (Communists), 2; still doubtful...