Word: exacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Yesterday's Sandwiches. Next day, the Democrat's beefy, shaggy-haired Editor Arthur Aull, famed for his blunt and exact descriptions of local events,* gave his own precise report of the Big Day. He thought everything "moved like a marriage bell," but he kept his eye on the real news in Lamar's Truman...
Czechs Arise. Slovakia was in revolt. The Berlin radio sputtered: "Soviet parachutists, saboteurs . . . Slav murderers and bandits. . . . We shall exact two thousandfold revenge. . . ." Screamed Dictator Father Joseph Tiso: "Slovakians! Give up your arms. If we keep order we shall not be occupied...
...precise and literal, it is perhaps permissible to remark that the exact words in Luke 23:34 are 'Forgive them; for they know not what they do.' The Germans know very well what they do and have known it for a long time. About forgiveness the British people require no lectures: they forgive and forget with fatal alacrity. But some erring sheep among us still associate forgiveness with contrition and repentance. It will be well enough to invite us not to be vindictive about flying bombs when flying bombs are no more and there has been some sign...
That "Hell of a Beating." In a sweet-&-sour mood last week, Stilwell recalled the "hell of a beating" taken by the Allies in Burma in 1942, and noted similarities in this campaign-"but in exact reverse." Equipment captured intact by the Japs two years ago was recaptured intact and again put to use by its original owners...
...Blasted to Hell. . . ." As often in the past, the unfathomable Japs passed up their chance to exact heavy casualties off the beaches. Said Conolly, tugging at his green fatigue cap: "We simply blasted the Japs to hell out of there and up into the trees." But it was not as simple as that. The Japs, estimated variously at 10,000 to 20,000, had three times as great an area (225 sq. mi.) as on Saipan into which to withdraw, to fight like cornered beasts in ravines and caves until destroyed to the last...