Word: cross
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alibi. In ensuing hours of cross-examination he was never trapped into contradiction. Yamashita simply waited, without anger, through the prosecutor's periods of elaborate sarcasm, then licked his lips and answered in unhesitant Japanese...
...ring: "Our troops will cross the border today...
...hearing wore on, political tension mounted. Democrats, who control the committee, let the first two witnesses-Admiral T. B. Inglis of Naval Intelligence and Colonel Bernard Thielen of the Army's General Staff-rehash old facts. Republicans, furious at the slow pace, cross-examined vigorously, but with little effect...
Last week this "selfless and sustained devotion to duty" brought for "Hammy" Gray the British Empire's highest award for valor-the Victoria Cross. He was Canada's 13th V.C. and the sixth from British Columbia...
Barracks occupied by the Japs were foul. The marines rolled up their sleeves, scri-bbed, swept and disinfected. The Chinese cooperated. Mayor Chang Ting-erh broadcast orders to the citizens: "No gypping." The Red Cross took over the sturdily built German Club and made it into "the finest serviceman's club west of San Francisco...