Word: dumdum
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...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...
Perhaps the most contradictory phrase of the 20th Century is "civilized warfare." Also, the idea that it is all right to shoot people with a steel-jacketed but not a dumdum bullet, to run them through with bayonets but not choke them with gas, to destroy their vessels with a battleship but not a submarine-all this is quite confusing to some uncomplicated minds. Lately the democracies have been trying to "humanize"' the wars in Spain and China, chiefly by urging the cessation of bombing behind the lines...
...ordinary times is a gentleman who wants to re-establish the status quo ante. The New Deal wants to do precisely that-as a matter of fact it is status quo George III or Diocletian. The process has not attained the label of 'liberal.' . . . They are dumdum words used to assassinate men and then to plant bitter onions on their graves...
...when we arrive at the spot we tell them they are to be put on trial. Then we walk around behind them, as if to remove the gags, and shoot them through the back of the head. In this way the face is unrecog-nizable'-as the dumdum bullet passes through the head it mushrooms and as it emerges 'blows off the face from behind...