Word: perishability
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...captain and Paulette doesn't know which she prefers, so she lets a giant squid decide for her in a climactic undersea-fight to end all undersea fights. The music gets much more frantic at this point, but it hardly matters since we know that Wayne, having sinned, must perish...
...week Lord Portsea begged the House of Lords to let him sail in a 20-ft. trawler (offered by a 77-year-old friend) with a cargo of food for the Jersey islanders. He pleaded: "It is for the children, more especially, that we plead. . . . Those little ones must perish, or worse, they must linger out their miserable lives stunted in mind and body unless we help them. . . . The task of this pleading is almost too much for me-is almost beyond...
...least upset by what Communists call the downfall of British Imperialism. I see no reason to alter a line of what I wrote of war and peace in Mars His Idiot. . . . But this challenge by the Nazis is ultimate. . . . I know that some of our traditions and institutions may perish in resisting this subversion of the mind, but all will surely perish if no resistance is made. That is the choice we have." In this mood Tomlinson sees nothing "unreasonable, therefore, in the substitution on the shore below of endless coils of barbed wire for the children who were there...
Bolshevism's shady European and American allies will perish with...
...human civilization is not to perish, everything that is possible must be done to make war impossible in Europe. But the violent solution dreamed of by Hitler, a primitive person obsessed by ill-digested historical memories, is a romantic folly and a barbarous and bloody anachronism...