Word: died
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this "blood, sweat and tears" you read about was done while wearing the fatigue uniform, and I have seen scores of my Infantry buddies die in their blood-stained fatigues...
...week's end, after Congress had digested the headlines and the advice, it appeared likely that members would change their minds and continue the draft (see ARMY & NAVY), would take a long and sober second look at the universal military training bill (which had once seemed likely to die without debate), would consider the proposed $3,750,000,000 loan to Britain "'much more sympathetically than heretofore...
Sirs: Perhaps you would be interested in knowing how the G.I.s out here feel about [Private] Hicswa, who was court-martialed, sentenced to die for the murder of a Japanese [TIME, Jan. 28]. The men agree that he should be punished-with a jail term-but that death is too severe. . . . We disagree with your statement that the Stateside papers "overplayed [Hicswa] . . . outrageously." The Army court-martial system is so weighted and bigoted, especially toward the enlisted man, that we feel that any and all court-martial cases should be brought before the American public. . . . (CPL.) ART YELLEN [AND FOUR...
Never Say Die. In Kemmerer, Wyo., Sherman Wade, skinning a dead horse, hit a nerve, got a kick in the face...
...smashed or burned. Manhattan's stockiest skyscrapers might stand up, but many of their light "curtain walls" would be swept away, leaving only skeleton steel. In downtown New York, a single up-to-date bomb might kill a million people. Some might live for a while, eventually die by inches. Few U.S. buildings could give protection from the stealthy gamma rays...