Word: hideousness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Expectoration or Splenetic Extempore, on my joyful departure from the City of Cologne In Koln, a town of monks and bones, And pavements fank'd with murderous stones, And rags, and hags, and hideous wenches, I counted two and seventy stenches, All well defined and separate stinks! Ye nymphs that reign o'er sewers and sinks, The river Rhine, it is well known, Doth wash your city of Cologne; But tell me, nymphs! what power divine Shall henceforth wash the river Rhine...
...putting up in Italy, where the terrain favors us. What will you do when you have driven us into our last great bastion, anchored on the high Alps from Salzburg to Lombardy? The terrain will then favor us on all sides, and we will make any attackers pay a hideous price. Think it over. We do not ask for much-only that we, ourselves, be permitted to live out our lives in dignity and comfort, as Napoleon did at St. Helena. You may do what you will with Germany. Think it over...
...agent (Regis Toomey) helps out by impersonating a crooked Canal Zone sergeant who hands Tracy a complete set of obsolete plans; another (Nancy Kelly) saves Tracy's life at the cost of her own. These and other complications wind through a labyrinth of hidden dictaphones, hideous tortures, sinister slant eyes, vicious voices...
...Towards the end of the first week of peace, those who organized processions will put their long-laid plans into operation, and London and other big cities will be filled with the sound of hideous music. Thousands will march through the streets holding up traffic for days. . . . Patriotic people will sing patriotic songs, and those who have done the least to win the war will sing the loudest. The people who are the least likely to sing songs and wave flags will be the sailors, soldiers and airmen. The people most likely to sing and to be entirely smothered...
...battles in the Philippine Sea. The Navy has let Jensen disclose some of its jealously misguarded secrets: the complete war records of some carriers, and frequent identification of other carriers and their air groups engaged in various battle; the makeup of a typical carrier task group; some of the "hideous errors," as well as the feats of skill and daring, which have marked the development of carrier war. But beyond the what, when & where of naval air war, Jensen tells the how: how a boy from Alameda feels in combat over Truk ("Those Grummans are beautiful planes," said Lieut...