Word: cuttingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...times he traveled over roads that were cut through beds of coal, with great chunks of shining anthracite used for fence rocks. Sometimes his path was a rushing muddy stream, over whose slippery rocks he had to pick his way. This precarious route, he found, was the lifeline of Chinese Armies. He passed numberless coolies, struggling and crawling with animal patience through the mountain gaps, overloaded with blankets, clothes, grenades, machine guns, rifles, cartridges, medical supplies, telephone wire; braying mules, struggling under dismantled bits of artillery; sick soldiers straggling from the front; stretchers jogged over the painful ways; beggars keening...
...charm, worn in life to ward off death. Often a man draws about himself a magic circle (the round of his life is full; no escape) and puts a bullet in his head. Instead of cremating bodies to be returned home for proper Shinto burial, Army officers cut off heads, cremate them for home burial, and bury the bodies in China, or drop them in rivers or wells. All these things prey on the Japanese will to fight...
Maybe it was his immense dignity. He was still the center of everything and the head of the table, among those men whom he once guided and counselled. He was still the ruler standing underneath his towers and surveying monuments called by his name. He didn't cut the cake skillfully or neatly, but his actions seemed to have the slowness of deliberation and dignity rather than impotence...
...called a close to the chapter he had written in the book of affairs. The Herald man covering Lowell's birthday last night had said "He is living in retirement at his Back Bay home" and he might as well have stopped there; and the editor calling for a cut to go with the story had been handed an old picture dug from deep in the files. The remoteness of another day and another way of life...
...College dining halls spend their $500,000 food budget and where could it cut down on its expenses? These are the ticklish questions which confront the recently appointed Student Council Committee on Board...