Word: dishonors
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...Esteva was the creature of Petain, who will soon be brought to trial in absentia. Esteva did not resist the Germans in Tunisia; instead, he appealed to the Free French to desert, conscripted Tunisians to help the Axis. "I ask death for the man who was content to accept dishonor...
...courtroom's silence the prisoner clutched his gold-braided cap, turned his face toward dishonor, mumbled: "I would have preferred death...
...both his arms tattooed : a woman on the right, and an unsheathed sword on the left, with the legend, "Death before Dishonor." Back in Raritan, his mother was surprised one day when she got a beautiful black silk kimono from a Filipino girl. Mrs. Basilone already had two daughters-in-law and she now thought she would soon have a third...
...cloak for those who fight; it was also for those who produce. Said Tokyo radio: "Step by step and moment by moment [the enemy] is approaching our mainland. . . . To support the spirit and follow the souls of the 4,500 men [on Tarawa and Makin] who preferred death to dishonor is the best way to fight. . . . The 100 million people [of Japan] must arouse themselves and must follow the glory of the 4,500 heroes...
...overcrowded, smoke-fogged Caxton Hall failed to echo the thunder of Palmerston, the precision of Gladstone or the delicacy of Asquith. But the 800 delegates to the Liberal Party's annual conference last week, and the public which got it secondhand, agreed that the meanings did no dishonor to British Liberalism's revered granddaddies...