Word: dying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that one member of the patrol who was trying to snatch some sleep had to be awakened lest his soft snoring give them away. "As I hid in the grass, two Shakespeare quotations buzzed through my head," recalled Mannock, faithful to his Oxford education. "The first was 'Cowards die many times before their deaths.' The other, as the night dragged interminably, was the Dauphin sighing, 'Will it never...
Perils & Glory. Individual Negroes have shown valor in every war: Crispus Attucks was the first American to die under British fire in the Boston Massacre; Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, himself perhaps part Negro, mustered many colored sailors aboard his men-of-war in 1812; a battalion of 600 Negroes turned the tide at the Battle of New Orleans by defeating British General Pakenham's seasoned Napoleonic veterans. Andrew Jackson paid them a glowing tribute: "To the Men of Color -Soldiers! I invited you to share in the perils and to divide the glory of your white countrymen. I expected...
...burns" (both phosphorus and napalm), and 13 of these were children. They found no patients with third-degree burns covering more than 20% of the body surface. This, they concluded, jibed with the opinion of U.S. military experts that the most severely burned victims of napalm and phosphorus die, sometimes of suffocation, without reaching a hospital. The C.O.R. doctors discounted Rusk's theory that many civilian "napalm burn" cases were actually injured trying to cook with gasoline: several victims they saw described the bomb that hurt them as a "gasoline bomb...
...indeed find evidence (hardly new) pointing to the dubious activities of the Judenrat-the civil leaders of the ghettos, who were chosen by the Jews and who, in some cities, decided which Jews were to die and which might live. And he also describes the insanely ingenious techniques that the Nazis employed to divide and demoralize their victims. Identity cards would be issued to some Jews; the others would soon disappear. Next, new cards would be given to some of the survivors, while the remainder again would be carted away. Methods of subdividing and conquering were continued in the camps...
...Master Stewart did not want the issue to die so quickly in the meeting. He tried very hard, but when it was over he said in a discouraged way, "I feel very strongly that the whole philosophy of my intelligent and able colleagues is very different from mine on this issue...