Word: dumdum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...threw flames at prisoners, or burned them alive with scorching air. The asbestos walls bore the imprints of the palms of men, women and children who had tried to escape. Near the sheds were poles to which prisoners had been bound by the neck, then shot with flesh-gouging dumdum bullets...
...British, usurper of our blood, may the massacre of sanction-ists arrive as you have willed it, on sea as on land. End for today and for always your designs on Abyssinia, repay us our debts of 1915 to 1918, as we will repay to your credit the dumdum bullets you sold the Negus. Amen...
...around the race track at Goshen, N. Y., sketching the trotters on odd scraps of paper. Later, as a husky moving-man, he used to ask for the job of crating people's paintings, so he could touch and study the oils. When a German sniper's dumdum bullet ploughed out a big hunk of his right shoulder in October 1918, after he had served 14 months in front-line trenches with his Negro National Guard company, Horace Pippin was invalided home as a total disability. But still he kept wanting to paint. Unable to raise his right...