Word: due
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...destruction Japanese military fanatics are building up to a super-Wagnerian climax which might result, if carried to its mad extreme, in the virtual annihilation-self-inflicted or imposed-of one of the nations of mankind. Recent suicides (military and civilian) indicate that the Jap yen for suicide is due less to fear of torture and imprisonment by U.S. captors than to a belief that somehow each death provides "a shield for the Emperor" and "contributes to the inevitable victory...
Next day the Palermo shooting continued, casualties increased. The New York Times's Herbert L. Matthews investigated. His judgment: the riots were due in part to economic misery, lack of food. But agents .provocateurs of the powerful Latifondisti (big land owners) had used this misery to promote Sicilian revolt...
...Due to the shooting and considerable static, Sergeant Flanagan was not crystal clear, but enough came through to tingle listeners' scalps: from the quiet "All right, men, let's go" of the Marine commander, to Flanagan's terse "Here come the Nips...
...attractions outweighed the handicaps. The News still has prestige as a sort of "New York Times of the Midwest," largely due to its voluminous, generally excellent foreign coverage. It has a tradition of good writing sprung from such ex-Newsmen as Eugene Field. George Ade, Carl Sandburg, Ben Hecht. And it has a tradition of independence that reaches back to its late great founder, Melville E. Stone. A good man could restore its greatness...
...first document produced by Wilck was unsatisfactory to the Americans: it did not contain the word "unconditional." After some hesitation, which he said was due to fear of Nazi retaliation against his family, Gerhardt Wilck drafted another: "Aachen's defending German garrison ran out of food and ammunition. I am forced to give up my command and surrender Aachen unconditionally, with all its stores, to the commanding officer of the victorious Americans...