Word: mined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last month the St. Louis Register, official weekly of the Missouri Roman Catholic Archdiocese, sternly warned Catholics (through its Ask and Learn column) not to accept such souvenirs. Question: "A friend of mine has received the skull of a Japanese from his son in the Pacific. The son's wife allows her small children to play with it. Is this right?" Answer: "No. Church law declares that persons who violate the bodies of the dead, with a view to . . . any evil purpose, shall be punished with a personal interdict (Canon 2328). The honor due to the human body after...
...crime. In Sofia he tried to assassinate a Prime Minister. There he befriended an uxorious little clerk (Steven Geray) in the Maritime Ministry, got him heavily in debt in a gambling house set up by spies for that express purpose, extorted from him the plans of Yugoslavia's mine fields in the Adriatic. Then he left his victim to suicide and, having collected his fee, double-crossed his employers...
...Then Father Hoffmann got up. He walked calmly up there through the hail of machine-gun bullets, and in a little while he came back carrying the wounded man. He got his captain's bars and Silver Star for that. Three days before he stepped on the mine [this cost him his leg], he came back one morning, telling everyone that the German gunners were wild shots. One of their mortars, he asserted, had missed him by seven feet. That's the way he was, laughing, joking and kidding around, but really getting things done, too. He could march right...
...worker: "Watch what the hell you're doing or you'll fall and break your neck." Retorted the worker: "Well, it's my neck." "Yes, it's your neck now," Crowe shot back, "but as soon as you break it, it's mine...
...Excepting perhaps the Chinese army, Tito's National Liberation Army has the highest percentage of amputations in the world. Last winter, several hundred bare-foot fighters had to have their frozen legs amputated. Also, the typical wound of the Partisan soldier is the fracture from mine thrower, cannon or bomb, and since hospitalized Partisans often must be moved over rugged terrain in this mobile warfare, the usual result is amputation...