Word: died
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some Would Die. We crossed to one of the long tents-the receiving ward where patients are brought first. At one end were eight operating tables where the wounded were examined immediately. The simpler operations were performed right there. The complex cases went to the cistern operating rooms...
Radio Tokyo last week described the defender of Iwo Jima, Lieut. General Tadamichi Kuribayashi, as a commander whose "partly protruding belly is packed full of strong fighting spirit." It quoted him: "This island is the front line that defends our mainland, and I am going to die here...
...ever. On his bullet-ridden corpse had been found a packet of penciled paper scraps and a tiny notebook. Overlooked by the assassins, the scraps were saved by a loyal official, handed over to Mandel's devoted mistress, blond, Junoesque Madame Beatrice Bretty of the Comédie Française. Now, with Madame Bretty's permission, they were published in Mandel's old paper, the Rightist L'Ordre...
Proudly France accepted this legacy of patriotism. Then it honored the donor in a manner wholly French. At the Comédie Française Madame Bretty played her first stage role (Lisette in Le Légataire Universel) since liberation. From the crowded audience came wave after wave of deep applause, for her and for Georges Mandel...
...target in the fog of battle, the San Francisco Chronicle had not. It roundly thumped Hearst for running down the marines in order to build up General MacArthur-who needed no build-up at anyone's expense. Observed the Chronicle: "Sinister fantasy ... to hint that the marines die fast and move slowly . . . because marine and naval leadership ... is incompetent...