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...Insult to Injury. Though the enemy refused to fight back with his surface ships, he was as eager as ever with his planes. Reinforcements staged from northern fields lashed again & again at Mitscher's carriers and their screen. One U.S. ship was seriously damaged. In two flays, over land and sea, 281 Jap planes were shot out of the air, 275 were destroyed on the ground and 175 more were crippled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Up Ag'in, Down Ag'in | 4/2/1945 | See Source »

Then Spruance sent his fast battleships inshore for heavy bombardment of coastal objectives. This was the crowning insult...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Up Ag'in, Down Ag'in | 4/2/1945 | See Source »

...story," he complained, which would make "any real child more puzzled than enchanted." In 1932, when Alice invaded the Chinese province of Hunan, the sensitive provincial war lord was even more shocked. "Bears, lions, and other beasts cannot use a human language," he barked, and banned Alice as "an insult to the human race." In 1936, an eminent Austrian psychiatrist recoiled, shuddering, before Alice's "oral sadistic traits of cannibalism" and "continuous threat to the integrity of the body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Great Eccentric | 4/2/1945 | See Source »

Since 1942, when the British and U.S. air forces really began to work over Germany, they have subtly insulted Adolf Hitler by ignoring his fabulous mountain castle at Berchtesgaden. Last week it seemed for a while that the insult had been spoiled. Berchtesgaden had been attacked by U.S. Thunderbolts from Italy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE SKIES: Just Another Village | 3/5/1945 | See Source »

Next day in Manhattan's St. Patrick's Cathedral, Archbishop Francis J. Spellman departed from the text of his sermon to denounce the statement as an i"insult to 25,000,000 fellow-Americans" He called the signers "selfstyled superpatriots [who] do disservice to their country and violate the Golden Rule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Church & State | 2/19/1945 | See Source »

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