Word: lieing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cheated of a formal inquisition and execution, Himmler's captors let his body lie for two days on the floor where he had fallen. Medical authorities removed the brain, took plaster casts of the skull. Finally, a British Army detail, sworn to secrecy, buried the unembalmed body in a grave on the heath near Lüneburg. There was no coffin, no marking on the grave. The shifting sand would soon obliterate the last sign; there would be no site for a martyr's monument...
Westward from Hawaii lie the islands which the Japanese had 30 years to prepare for defense: Kwajalein, Eniwetok, Majuro and Palau. Those glittering prizes of yesteryear have their garrisons, their installations and their functions, but they are no longer in the forefront of the new Pacific...
Trusteeships. The organization so painfully being born in San Francisco must deal with the causes of war. Plain as midday was the fact that some of the prime causes of future war may lie in the struggling rise of what the technicians call "dependent peoples." In their millions they are discovering nationalism, industrialization, education and power...
Whatever may lie ahead, in two years Allied forces (and especially U.S. forces) have fought and won one of the greatest wars in history through the Pacific islands. It is a different war from here on, in a different ocean, with new ships, new weapons...
Rain, the curse of spring sports which makes intramural directors lie awake nights thinking up ways to sandwich in postponed games, has succeeded during the past couple of weeks-in washing out most of the current softball league play and at the same time dampening the spirits of the players...