Word: due
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...give the devil his due: the picture was snapped by a German press photographer and first appeared in the National Socialist newspaper, Völkischer Beobachter, in the fall of 1938, shortly after the Sudeten "Anschluss." The Nazi explanation was that here were portrayed the intense emotions of joy which swept the Sudeten Germans as Hitler crossed the Czech border at Asch and drove through the streets of the nearby ancient city of Eger, 99% of whose inhabitants were ardently pro-Nazi Sudeten Germans at the time...
...Much of the effect of the atomic bombs in Japan was due to flimsy construction. In a steel-and-concrete U.S. city, one of the bombs would have done no more damage than a ten-ton TNT bomb...
General Tu reported that the Russians had "guaranteed" a safe landing in Manchuria-but not at Dairen and Port Arthur. The port of entry was Yingkow, a minor harbor with rail connections to the interior. The Russians gave due warning that, elsewhere in southern Manchuria, presumably at Hulutao and Antung, Chinese Reds might not be so agreeable...
...with an equally heroic young nurse and to strangle a Nazi spy with one hand while buried up to his neck in the rubble of a brick wall. But Days and Nights is neither a love story nor a routine bang-bang adventure yarn. Its high emotional charge is due to Author Simonov's sensitive observation of the people who fought in Stalingrad's streets. Russians have already bought 400,000 copies. The Book-of-the-Month Club has selected Joseph Barnes's smooth translation for November...
...said that the Council would also choose seven more to direct the social affairs of the "forty-niners." These appointees, he stated, would be temporarily installed until an election could be held some time in December so as "to inject the democratic element." The publication officials, however, "due to the specialized nature of their work," would be decided upon by the Council in consultation with Dean Leighton and Freshman proctors...