Word: nose
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this week 26 more Marines had flown in from Guam, with flame throwers and 60-mm. mortars, to join the hunt. By day they crawled cautiously up Peleliu's tortured Bloody Nose Ridge, where the ist Marine Division had lost over 6,000 casualties just 30 months before. By night they established cossack posts to bushwhack guerrillas who sneaked out in search of food & clothing. There was one change from the first, historic assault landing on Peleliu. This time the Marine reinforcements jumped at the chance to move in "for experience and target practice...
Shooting his club-like fist unerringly, he downed Dowat early in the second for nine, and boring in inexorably, sent his game but bewildered adversary to the canvas with a streaming nose for another nine-count. Referee Tommy Rawson halted the bout...
...midst of all this plenty. Small publishers cried that big ones had tied up the supply. Time Inc., Curtis Publishing Co., and other big magazine publishers, said one witness, were "absorbing the market" by buying paper mills. The little fellows were left to starve, or pay through the nose (up to $250 a ton, against the going price...
Hold Your Nose, Close Your Eyes...
...Dear boy, to love people as they are is impossible. And yet we must. And therefore do them good . . . holding your nose and shutting your eyes. . . . Endure evil from them . . . know how to despise them even when they are good, for most often it is in that they are base. . . . Anyone who's not quite stupid can't live without despising himself. ... To love one's neighbor and not despise him ... is impossible. -. . . 'Love for humanity' must be understood as love for that humanity which you have yourself created in your soul . . . and which, therefore...