Word: died
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...established the fact that the people are entitled to create the precedent of force, i.e., the citizenry is justified in forcing a government of little courage into the unpleasantness of total war. . . . Washington is no different from the hesitant soldier; both must be forced into unpleasantness. The soldier may die. The Government may lose the next election. The people must insist on the power of force in total war against the individual and against the Government...
...Navy said last week that there was no further enemy resistance on Attu Is land. A few Japs remained. They would probably die. Score so far: Japanese dead or wounded, 1,791 ; Japanese prisoners...
...cockeyed The Skin of Our Teeth started ten thousand arguments, sold a quarter of a million seats and won the Pulitzer Prize. Oklahoma!, musicomedy's least orthodox offering in years, was also its most charming and successful. As Rosalinda, Johann Strauss's 6g-year-old, waltz-drenched Die Fledermaus became a surprise smash...
...cuts down the peninsula, its fog-hidden peaks rising at times to a height of 2,000 ft. Here the Japs dug in, under rock ledges and beside boulders, their machine guns cleverly camouflaged, their snipers posted at angles to protect the machine gunners. Jap strategy is plain: to die, but to take as many Americans with them as possible...
...China . . . is now going through a kind of educational revolution. . . . It is this process that has made China today no longer a nation of inert masses, but a nation of individuals . . . willing to fight and die for a future of freedom. . . . This kind of work, in which our American missionaries have been so loyal and conscientious, is a fine example of what I mean by leadership...