Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Government Station area. That day saw the first break in Jap do-or-die morale: 23 surrendered without trying to betray their conquerors. Others, clutching logs and lifebelts, tried to swim away, were picked off by sharks and sharpshooters. Next day the station area was occupied. Low-flying planes strafed the last refugees paddling through...
...bombers were Army planes under the command of Colonel William A. Matheny. But they flew at the request of the Navy, to implement naval strategy. They attacked, as the Navy would have them, at low level. The Army raid was announced by the Navy. Army D.F.C.s were pinned on six Army chests at the Army's Hickam Field by the Navy's Nimitz...
...bitter, pent-up determination of South Africa's low-paid Negro workers to get better pay (TIME, Jan. 4) boiled over last week...
Recent orders from Washington indicating that the E.R.C. and probably a large part of the R.O.T.C. will be called away from college for military training shortly after midyears have left many students suddenly face to face with the problem of disposing of their furniture. Because of the low prices of a flooded market, many will not want to sell their room furniture at a loss and many more will not want to sell at all. The houses with their limited cellar space cannot offer adequate storage facilities while already overtaxed transportation systems and unexpected expense will make shipments home inadvisable...
...same month that saw Hitler's Low Countries Blitz and the obliteration of the French Republic, the Supreme Court held by an eight-to-one vote that a student whose religious scruples prohibited his saluting the flag could be dismissed from the public schools. That decision was a sudden shift from an outstanding ten-year record of liberality in civil-liberties cases. Then, a year later, three members of the majority recanted publicly, stating that they had been in error in the original decision. Justices Black, Douglas, and Murphy did not, however, reveal their reasons for voting with the majority...