Word: mottoes
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...there you come to a house that has been completely smashed and whose timbers are still smoldering. If resistance comes from a house, there is no dickering: a tank crew blows it apart, and rolls calmly on. After a few such examples the word seems to get around. The motto of the armormen is: if they want war they can have...
...Colonel Kingoro Hashimoto, bullyboy and cloak-&-dagger man, who in 1936 took part in the bloody coup against the Government. In 1937 he ordered the bombing of the U.S.S. Panay. His motto: "Watch me, Hashimoto. I am no man to sit and talk...
...could look down upon flower gardens and a spider's web of clotheslines forever hung with grey underwear. His father, who then had charge of the hardware section of Bohan's department store, was a Republican with firm convictions about religion: "Live and let live is my motto. A man can be a better Christian than most and not go near a church...
...would run the Pacific War from now on was opened wide last week. General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, midway in the task of liberating the Philippines, had not even waited for the mopping-up to begin before he made a bold bid for fresh fields to conquer: "Our motto becomes 'On to Tokyo.' We are ready in this veteran and proven command when called upon...
Tonight and Every Night begins as a cameraman from LIFE prepares to photograph a dance number on the stage of London's Music Box Theater (motto: "We never missed a show"). From a fatherly old stage carpenter on the fly gallery he hears the history of the little music hall's gallant struggle to carry on during the blitz, and the love story of its leading lady, Rosalind Bruce (Miss Hayworth), and a handsome R.A.F. squadron leader (Lee Bowman...