Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...church and, as the women & children panicked, the SS men mowed them down with machine guns. The explosion of the smoke bomb was the signal for the soldiers stationed outside the barns to fire point blank into the massed groups of men. The soldiers then walked in among the fallen bodies, firing with their pistols on any that seemed alive. They piled hay and bedding over the bodies and burned them. Systematically they set fire to every house in Oradour. Mounting their trucks and tanks, they moved on toward Normandy...
...morning, Corpsman Irwin Rietz was on duty in his first-aid station, close to the front line. Through the crump of enemy mortars, he heard a G.I. shout, "Medic . . . medic," and raced to the shallow trench where his first combat casualty lay. The wounded man's helmet had fallen over his face; blood oozed from a jagged hole in his breast. Irwin concentrated on all the things he had been taught to do. "Take it easy, Mac," said Corpsman Rietz as he ripped open the blood-soaked flak jacket and pressed dressings on the wound. "You're going...
...expanded budget, Conant explained, were the "temporary expansion of the student body in the demobilization period and the three-term calendar in many faculties. One would have imagined that with the return to more usual operating conditions and a reduced student body, the total expenditures would have fallen. Instead of which they rose rapidly and continued to rise...
...were the bargains confined to soft goods. With Kentucky warehouses jammed with straight bourbons, National Distillers cut its prices of Old Grand-Dad and Old Taylor $6.25 a case (probable retail cut: 76? a fifth). Retail meat prices finally reflected some of the drops in livestock prices which had fallen 20% since August. In big ads in Chicago and New York, A & P compared last year's retail prices with 1953's (e.g., $1.08 for sirloin steak in New York v. 89? now, $1.15 for rib lamb chops v. 75? now and 90? for boneless chuck...
Craps & Hand Grenades. But as soon as Onassis called on his old friend, Prince Rainier, the atmosphere became more friendly. The Casino, once the gathering place of rich royalty and the royally rich, had fallen on bad times. Gone were the days when Alexandra, Czarina of all the Russias, could bring the entire corps of the Imperial Ballet to dance while she gambled, when a Casino patron could toss a hand grenade into the roulette wheel after losing his wad and scarcely raise a commotion. Currency restrictions had cut the once-rich British trade to a trickle; the recently installed...