Word: monsters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last defiant gesture, two Japanese who were manning a now useless machine gun took off their shoes and hurled them at a tank. The Americans were unable to leave the tank without being shot, so they ran the steel monster over the Japanese position...
Japan had neglected anti-quake building construction for war implement production. Landsberg said, "when the sleeping monster" beneath the islands once more awakens Japan stands to suffer a loss equal to, if not greater than, that resulting from the 1923 temblor...
Paris' Eiffel Tower is a gaunt, startling skeleton of bare iron bones which hypersensitive esthetes have often called "a horrible thing ... a monster of the imagination." But ever since it was finished in 1889, the 984-foot tower has been jealously adored as a symbol of Paris. It has been visited by 18 millions. It has traveled worldwide by post card, is clearly imprinted on the mind's eye of a large part of the world's population. It has inspired countless little boys playing with sets of Meccano...
Isoroku Yamamoto is not the grinning, bowing, breath-sipping little man with horn-rimmed glasses, eager mustache and super-buck teeth which U.S. cartoonists have selected as Mr. Japan. He is not a monster who enjoys killing babies and takes rape after dinner instead of coffee. He is, instead, a hard-bitten professional man with a sixth sense-hatred...
This was the sad conclusion last week of many a defense expert. Intended as the brains of defense, SPAB has turned out to be just another feeble tentacle of the hydra-like monster. Donald Nelson, its executive director, has no vote in its councils. Moreover, Nelson has two conflicting jobs. As SPAB director he is boss of William Knudsen's Office of Pro duction Management. As OPM's priorities director, he is Knudsen's hired hand...