Word: palmed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...before the war, holds the Legion of Merit... Writer Hugh Fosburgh (now 2nd Lieut. Fosburgh) has the Air Medal with two Oak Leaf clusters...and Captain David Walter Allard of our Cleveland staff has been awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, the Purple Heart and the Croix de guerre with palm for "extraordinary heroism in action." (Allard volunteered to swim the Seine under heavy fire to scout out German positions - was wounded getting back - "despite great pain gave detailed accounts of the enemy disposition that contributed greatly to the success of the crossing...
Even big, international Colgate-Palm-olive-Peet Company was hit by flying fragments in Mexico's endless religious war. But as Mexicans went on battling last week (largely with words), the company came out of the shindig without wounds...
When the Japs were masters of Angaur, in the Palau Islands, they tied noncooperative natives to trees and bashed in their heads with coconut-palm logs. This put a quietus on native dancing, which the Japanese considered a heathenish practice...
...Catholic Campaign" is a shoddy piece of smear. That issue treats the Church with TIME'S typical journalistic skulduggery regarding things Catholic. It would throw a sop to the gullible in the form of a picture of Pope Pius XII and Sister Mary Elaine. Do not palm the smear off on the pretense of freedom of the press. That item makes news only because it throws dung at the magnificent structure of the Church...
...Tree. Joe traveled 150,000 miles, played in jampacked halls, hospitals, gun emplacements, rainy ditches, jungle outposts. Once he climbed Canton Island's sole palm tree to entertain the solitary G.I. on lookout duty. Sometimes Comedian Brown would mutter prayers: "Listen, God, this is your...