Word: doss
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Broken Noses. By & large, the cramped U.S. population had become as resigned as Chinese coolies in a Shanghai doss house. Yet here & there a savage temper showed through. In New York, a landlord was sent to jail for breaking a woman tenant's nose after she complained to the rent-control board that he was overcharging her (her rent: $40 a month for one room...
...associates and felt that Raft was just about as black as the movies painted him), suddenly had a little trouble with a 50-year-old attorney named Edward Raiden. Back before Christmas of last year, charged Raiden, he had been sent to Raft by 19-year-old Betty Doss to recover some finery which Raft had given her and then yanked back. While one of Raft's friends held him, the attorney complained, Raft gave him a shellacking, and then kneed him. So now Raiden sued for $300,000. Commented Raft: "That's pretty good...
...sunny day last week 26-year-old Corporal Desmond T. Doss stood at attention on the White House lawn. President Harry Truman placed a pale blue ribbon around his neck, shook his hand warmly. As he stepped back-the first conscientious objector in U.S. history to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor-generals, admirals, Cabinet members, his proud parents and his pretty wife applauded enthusiastically...
...Seventh-Day Adventist, a conscientious objector, and a veteran, Desmond Doss had something to say about war: "Everybody has got to get back to believing in God and the other fellow and his rights...
That might have sounded irrelevant to some, but Desmond Doss knew better...