Word: hood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world rife with many injustices, it is hard to single out any one as being worse than another, yet the action of a Hood, Ore. American Legion Post in erasing from the town's honor roll the names of 16 Japanese-American servicemen seems to me particularly blameworthy (TIME...
...Hood River, Ore. (pop. 3.280), American Legionnaires daubed paint on their servicemen's honor roll to obliterate the names of 16 Nisei soldiers...
...carrier's catapult had gone haywire, had shoved him and his eight-ton aircraft overside-a 40-ft. plunge. The plane's belly tank had been rammed into the cockpit, flooding him with searing gasoline. He had been slammed tight against the cockpit hood, his only means of escape...
Pouf! In Charlotte, N.C., a husky fireman, responding to a three-alarm blaze, found smoke pouring from a parked truck in midtown, raised the hood, saw flames around the carburetor, bent over, blew out the blaze...
...clothes. Occupation had reduced the Filipinos to burlap-like abaca clothes, or old garments patched beyond recognition. Now green twill fatigue caps, G.I. undershirts and shorts were standard. Some Filipino girls sallied forth in new, white sarongs, made from Government-issue towels, on some of them the legend: CAMP HOOD...