Word: counte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...defeat of the bill would be disastrous to the U.S. When the day for the vote arrived, Sam Rayburn was in a state of honest mental anguish; neither he nor anyone else knew for certain how the votes would go. As the clerk called the roll, Sam kept accurate count: the final tally showed the bill passed 203-202. Before any coward could switch his vote, Sam Rayburn, in a shrewd tactical move, announced the total, gaveled down all moves for reconsideration. He had won; and the U.S. Army was not disbanded four months before Pearl Harbor...
...them had fled into the jungle, where a few were tracked down and killed. Many others may have managed to escape up the coast in barges. It was obvious that the first estimate of their number was exaggerated. A few who were left resisted to the end. Last official count of total Jap dead: 1,000. The chief prize: Lae airfield. Three miles northeast of the Lae strips was the Malahang airfield, which also fell into Allied hands. It was the fourth time in the last five weeks that the Japs had given up an untenable position rather than make...
...move to help a guy who has been hurt or killed because, if you do, you have to help his whole family. Consequently traffic victims just lie there and die. . . . Got a couple of combat missions but they were so easy I didn't even want to count them...
...almost two years a notably thorough analysis of possible meat substitutes has been conducted at Yale by Botanist Paul Rufus Burkholder. He and others have found a number which on almost every food count (protein, vitamins, calcium, carbohydrates) are as good as or better than beefsteak; even whole wheat compares well with meat. Some substitutes recommended by Professor Burkholder...
Correspondent Johnston has especially kind words for a German-born American and a native Papuan. The American, Herman Bottcher, led twelve volunteers into the Japanese positions, built fortifications on the beach. Constantly under fire, Bottcher provided a diversion that resulted in Allied victory. "By a conservative count . . . Bottcher and his twelve men . . . killed more than 120 Japs." The Papuan, Katue, conducted a one-man guerrilla war against the Japanese. In the jungles he killed innumerable Japanese and scared many New Guinea natives who had gone over to the Japanese back to the Allied side. After 73 days of individual exploits...