Word: nose
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Admirals by the Nose...
...Doctors and dentists with 80 points, or who are 48 years old, or who joined up before Pearl Harbor, can get out immediately unless they are in certain specialties (eye, ear, nose & throat work, plastic surgery, orthopedic surgery, neuropsychiatry, etc.). These specialists (except those who enlisted before 1941) will have to stay in until the Army lets them go. All other doctors who have enough points can be kept in after December 15 only with their consent...
...September, they arrived in Yokohama, where a Jap officer struck Zamperini's nose with a flashlight because, when they were transporting him in a sedan, he could not get his long legs under a jump seat...
...Exhibit. In Bradford. England, a woman charged a Canadian soldier with biting off the end of her nose, brought the proof with her to court, preserved in a bottle...
They were shifted to Truk, put aboard a transport for Japan. Men in the crew, infuriated when the flyers said they thought Japan would lose the war, punched them in the face, broke Zamperini's nose. For weeks he held the broken bones in place until they had healed...