Word: factly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japanese naval forces who were trapped and later wiped out by the Americans. It turned out that these forces were not under Yamashita's effective command. He was far away in the hills, and had lost touch with the units responsible for most of the outrages. Yamashita, in fact, reached the Philippines for the first time two days after the U.S. troops had landed at Leyte, and never did succeed in establishing contact with many of his units...
Moments of Glee. Opening debate in the House of Commons, Sir Stafford Cripps made yet another of his austerity speeches. "We can draw no more," he said gloomily, "from our already attenuated reserves." Dollar imports of food and tobacco would be cut still further-in fact, Sir Stafford made it clear that dollar imports would be cut almost down to the indispensable bone of raw materials for British factories. Cripps also called for a stoppage of loans and credits to other countries, and a check on the "unrequited exports" which Britain has been shipping to the Dominions in order...
...occasion, Gleysteen was arrested and charged with "signaling out to sea with the lights of his jeep." He was held for two hours in an ice-cold waiting room where he did push-ups to keep warm while Paddock argued for his release. Said Paddock: "The fact that it was not quite dark and that the jeep was pointed inland would seem sufficient to disprove the charge...
...group of repatriated Japanese refugees. Some of the refugees were produced before a Communist rally in Tokyo, where each was paraded up on a rostrum to make a little speech. One youth tried hard to be convincing. Said he: "Living in Dairen wasn't so bad. In fact, I think things really must have been a lot better than they seemed...
...distinguished-looking man of 84 who had once (1897) been a Texas county judge. The son of a Methodist minister, he was inordinately proud of his Scotch-Irish background and of the fact that his ancestors had fought in every North American war since the Revolution. At one time or another, he had run a chain of banks in Texas, a gas company, a cotton exporting firm, a flour mill, a steel company, a ranch and 38 Mississippi plantations on which he had found...