Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next jaunt was a 75-mile trip to Mount Rainier. Mist hung low as the President's car moved up through the foothills, crossed a river at the foot of Nisqually Glacier. But as he drove higher between high snow walls, the sun came out and the 14,000-ft. peak above them hung dazzling white against a blue mountain sky. At Paradise Valley, 5,400 feet above sea level, the President threw snowballs, stared at the heights through glasses, went into sprawling Paradise Inn to play a few pieces on the piano...
Fire fell on Kagoshima in the night, as suddenly as an earthquake, but with far greater violence. Peacefully, Kagoshima's 200,000 Japanese citizens had gone to bed, leaving the city and naval anchorage brightly lighted. Then, at low level, the B-29s roared in. Two searchlights aimlessly fingered the sky and quickly paled into nothing as almost 1,000 tons of incendiary bombs turned the city into a flaming caldron. There was only one dark spot in the glowing mass: a baseball park...
Corporal John C. Corbett of the 8th Marines had won a signal honor. He picked up a stone and hurled it with all his strength from the low cliffs of southern Okinawa into the blue waters which lapped the shore. That stone's splash meant that the eleven-week drive by U.S. forces from the center of the island had at last reached the southern...
Some fissures were at last appearing in the armor of Bushido-the stern warrior code. By Western standards, the rate of surrender was still low indeed, but Japanese prisoners, once a rarity in the Pacific, were coming in as never before. Psychological warfare units worked hard to encourage more...
...Golden World. Soon Q "set out a quire of virgin folio paper" and, under the influence of Robert Louis Stevenson, wrote his first adventure story (Dead Man's Rock). He also "asked the lady of my affection to be my wife. We had halted . . . beside a low wall coped by a quantity of wild thyme, on a tuft of which I rested a hand as I spoke and waited for her answer. To this day, halting before a tuft of the plant I press it and it recalls that answer in its fragrance." In "the general security of life...