Word: killinger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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One C-54 with 80 Chinese passengers and a crew of four Americans crashed near Hangchow, killing all the occupants - the greatest loss of life in any U.S. plane any where. A C46 struck a radio tower at Peiping and crashed. There were other casualties when superstitious Chinese walked across...
When they met German colonists in Poland, living peacefully on idyllic farms and in comfortable apartments, their discipline cracked. Some went wild, looting, raping, killing. The Red Army command took stern measures, but it could not change the basic fact which made for all the trouble: the discrepancy between the...
No Kisses, No Killing. As fashion decrees in Latin America, the army had called the turn. But the army had broken with tradition: like the majors who overturned the government of Venezuela last month, the Brazilian generals had apparently been on the side of democracy.
The "gentle" Jains, one of India's oldest religious sects, believe that almost every living thing is man's brother. They are thus careful not to harm any form of animal life, even the smallest insects. Gandhi once (1928) offended them deeply by killing a helplessly maimed calf...
Under the Tsars, Poland saw some horrible pogroms, and, later, the Beck regime was also openly antiSemitic. To this residue of racist poison, during the German occupation, the Nazis added their own anti-Semitic slime. The Germans almost ended Poland's Jewish problem by killing nearly all the Jews...