Word: grave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...memory of Hero Reader Church, TIME'S apologies. In admiration for him the Japanese set up the wing of his broken airplane as a marker for his grave...
Ghouls and Beggars. Hunger has fostered a new profession. When the Athens powerhouse shuts down at nightfall to save fuel, grave robbers prowl the dark cemeteries, stripping the dead of the clothes they no longer need. It has been a bitter winter in Greece, and there is no fuel. Some of the lucky ghouls find rings and necklaces on the corpses. With jewelry they can sometimes buy a mouthful of bread from Italian soldiers...
...Said Dr. Sun: "If the United States and Britain intend to allow Japan free rein in the Far East while they are finishing off Hitler, as seems to be indicated in recent speeches by [Britain's First Lord of the Admiralty A. V.] Alexander* and Knox, there is grave doubt in Chungking as to the wisdom of China's continuing to fight...
...middle life, Painter Rembrandt's fortunes changed abruptly. His wife followed three children to the grave, leaving him with a feeble-bodied only son. His commissions began to fall off-his pictures with their enveloping shadows were not clear enough likenesses to suit the trade. His magnificently furnished home was dismantled to satisfy his creditors...
...increasing Turkey's worry over its position between Adolf Hitler and the Suez and Near Eastern oil. About to leave Ankara for a visit to Berlin, he delivered to Turkey's President Ismet Inönü a parting gift. It consisted of a learned volume on "grave excavations in Turkey...