Word: killinger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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¶ The increasing practice of killing and maiming of news stories, and the more frequent brushoff of news queries.
Men of the famed U.S. Third Division emulated airmen, formed their own society of aces. Members qualify by killing one German, get a distinctive sleeve flash when they have killed five, call their society the Kraut Killers' League.
Armored Mice. Lewis started writing when he was very young. "My first stories," he says, "were nearly all about mice, but mice in armor killing gigantic cats. That is, I wrote the books I should have liked to read if only I could have got them.
New Britain. General MacArthur's men (Marine veterans of Guadalcanal) had won their objective on New Britain's western tip: the Japs' two Cape Gloucester air strips, 250 miles from Rabaul. With an accurate pre-invasion bombardment, with Sherman tanks, heavy artillery and pillbox-killing flamethrowers, they...
In a darkened farmhouse just north of San Vittore on the road to Rome, Germans were clinking glasses and singing the old songs of Christmas Eve. Outside, Lieut. Frank S. Greenlee of Nashville and a patrol of 15 slipped through the lines, crept close enough to identify their quarry. Then...