Word: disembowelled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Continued in its mood of last fortnight in bitter night sessions to disembowel Franklin Roosevelt's "Great White Rabbit of 1939." The Republocratic coalition, working as smoothly as surgeons, cut open the $2,490,000,000 Spend-Lend Bill and extracted $500,000,000 for toll roads, tunnels and bridges, $350,000,000 for RFC railroad equipment loans, knifed $25,000,000 from a proposed increase in the loan authorization of the Export-Import Bank, then passed it, sending the emaciated Rabbit to the House. The bill, once totaling $3,860,000,000, now stood...
Hinckley won this event with a single well-placed bullet which jammed the machine's work before it had gone 11 inches. An accurate try of Richard G. Labovitz '38, blew his target right off its track. However, the star performance was Hall's Rather than hopelessly disembowel the toy, thus rendering it useless, he struck the starting lever with his bullet, thereby stopping the tank, uninjured...
...woke up in a Chinese hospital. The Japanese courtmartial, when these facts had been established, complimented Major Kuga and dismissed him with all honor-but his hero's brain throbbed with the madding, ignominious fact that he had been "captured." Major Kuga wished to commit harakiri-to disembowel himself with his sword-but his own sword had been broken in the battle, an aggravation of his shame. Brooding and white-lipped Major Kuga walked last week to the exact spot on Shanghai's battlefield where the hand grenade had knocked him unconscious. There, putting his service pistol...