Word: growed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...measured in yards or miles gained along the twisting, rotting jungle paths; it can be measured only in dead Japs. On few of the islands are the Japs withering on the vine. They have to be knocked off. They have tremendous ammunition dumps and stockpiles of weapons, and they grow enough food themselves to get fatter and stronger than the Japs at home...
...brick and stone, including the marble walls of the Reichs Chancellery, can be used again. A sign on a brick pile says: "These bricks are the property of the city of Berlin. Persons taking them away will be punished." The bullet-clipped trees of the Tiergarten will grow again. The statue of Kaiser Wilhelm I on the Schloss-Platz has its eagles scattered about, but the old man rides as arrogantly as ever...
...acquired less book learning than many, graduating two-thirds of the way down his class ('04), but he kept more of his individuality as a rough & tough scrapper, quick to make up his mind and fearless in action. He became the kind of man around whom legends grow...
...plane into a U.S. aircraft carrier, lest "the traditional spirit of the Japanese Navy be spoiled." Thereafter, Radio Tokyo daily intoned the names of "hero gods," who were promoted (posthumously) two or three ranks instead of the customary one. Japanese journalists interviewed little boys whose ambition was to grow up and become suicide pilots...
Cried the Christian Democrat Popolo: "There is fear of a Red revolution." Growled the Communist Unita: "The situation is grave and will certainly grow worse unless the masses are given to feel that liberation is not a vain word...