Word: grave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Aware that they were setting a momentous precedent (see INTERNATIONAL), the five U.S. officers serving as commissioners mulled the question of responsibility. But if they forgave Dostler for following orders, the only war criminal left would be Hitler. When they had decided, grave-faced Corporal Albert Hirschman of the O.S.S. translated the verdict for impassive General Dostler: "To be shot to death by musketry...
Food and a Grave. In The Netherlands, underfueled pumps sucked at flooded farmlands which for years to come would be sterile as salt...
...Women. The defendants sat in their long dock, three rows deep, large identification numbers on their chests, listening impassively. The 26 men were grave and sodden. The 19 women kept an insolent composure. There was prune-faced Juana Borman (whose wolfhound liked to tear prisoners to pieces). There was wispy-haired Anna Hampel (who, according to one witness, had a crush on a French internee. "She tried to flirt with him, but he was reluctant, so she beat him all the time...
...late to do it much good, OWI last week got several ornate wreaths on its grave. They were placed there by the British. London's World's Press News (the British counterpart of the conservative U.S. Editor & Publisher) asked correspondents throughout the Empire to say what they thought of OWJ. Their answers would surprise domestic critics who have insisted that the OWI was all thumbs. Most correspondents thought that the highly touted British information services could learn from OWI. Samples...
...Labor Government's new, youngish Attorney General, Sir Hartley Shawcross, opened for the prosecution. In a grave, melodious voice Sir Hartley said: "Members of the jury, today, exactly six years after he entered into the employment of the German broadcasting corporation, William Joyce comes before you on what is the gravest crime...