Word: forearmed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have sent back from the South Pacific there have been a few Japanese soldiers' skulls. They were also shocked to read last week (in Drew Pearson's Merry-go-Round), that Pennsylvania's Representative Francis Walter presented Franklin Roosevelt "with a letter-opener made from the forearm of a Jap soldier killed in the Pacific. He apologized for so small a part of the Jap's anatomy. F.D.R. did not touch it but lit a cigaret...
...midweek Secretary Hull trudged firmly up the Capitol steps to try to answer some questions for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Gesturing constantly with a sidearm wave of his right hand and forearm, the old man talked for two hours without glancing at a note. But the generalities of his review added little to the Senators' information. His main theme: in wartime the State Department's primary task is to help win the earliest possible victory with the fewest possible losses. Nearly all questions should be held for the peace table...
Many firms forearm themselves with a clean-slate report from D. & B. before going out to look for war work. One such investigation recently proved to the startled head of a large war plant that his own secretary was a Japanese agent. A similar check for a high Washington war man had him in a cold sweat last week. Said a terse X & B. report on a man he was about to promote: "This man has held several responsible jobs. His habits are good. But ie is of German extraction and his loyalty is questioned. His closest associates refer...
Angered, acquitting himself surprisingly well for a man who had never used the saber, Damonte pinked Rottjer's forearm, sliced through the thick hairs on his opponent's chest and left a trail of blood...
...Madison Square Garden. In the other singles match of the opening performance of an 80-city tour, Bobby Riggs, also making his professional debut, won by default from Fred Perry, 1941 pro champion, when Perry sprawled headlong on the hard floor, injured a nerve in his right forearm. To pinch-hit for Perry for at least a week, Promoter Alexis Thompson got Gene Mako, onetime U.S. doubles champion (with Budge), to turn...