Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jesse Jones has an expediter. "Keep on their tails," said he to tall, knife-thin Clarence Francis, who took a leave from the presidency of General Foods to do the job. "Keep on their tails," said Clare Francis to some 20 other top-notch executives who volunteered to man his 17 regional offices. The tails: those of some 500 corporations now building more than $3,000,000,000 worth of new war plants with Jesse Jones's money...
Under the Knife. Most of the skull wounds at Pearl Harbor were made by fragments of steel varying in size from pieces smaller than a dime to large, jagged chunks bigger and thicker than a silver dollar. Often the smaller missiles left only a scratch on the forehead, but passed right into the brain, tearing apart a considerable amount of tissue. Those men whose heads were shattered died in a few minutes. But others, whose skulls were quite intact, were good risks for operation, no matter how badly their brains were damaged...
...Cloward used a small suction tube to remove bits of debris, then trimmed off all injured tissue with a knife. If the pieces of metal were close to the surface, they were removed; if small and deeply embedded, they were allowed to remain in the brain, for fear of increasing damage by operation. When the brain was clean, the wound was filled with sulfanilamide powder, and the brain envelope and scalp stitched tight...
Japanese crushed "uprisings" when observers could see none. Soon-in 1919, 1923, 1931-they had to deal with the real thing. The Society of Heroes worked for independence by violence, especially assassination, if possible by the knife; the Exploding Party, also working for independence, chose the bomb. Most shocking revelation of Japan's fear of Koreans came in the Tokyo earthquake. Then, because the rumor grew that Koreans were taking advantage of the disaster to blow up bridges, cut wires, Japanese went into a wave of hysteria that made the Orson Welles broadcast scare look like a session...
...sons and a daughter. Lady Paw Tun runs a kindergarten for Europeans and Burmese. Premier Paw Tun, who is expected to accommodate the British better than Axis-inclined Premier Saw, still wears a silk headpiece and skirt, Burmese-style, but is so westernized that he eats with a knife and fork rather than his fingers...