Word: perishings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seagoing style"), Bannon sets about forcing the devils to eat their own brimstone. He succeeds in making the Gaunt Woman one gigantic time bomb for the ruin of her U-boat offspring. As she blows, Bannon lifts "his clenched hands in a gesture of malediction," says "so perish the enemies of free men." With his incipient "Navy wife" Margaret nestling to leeward, he sets off after his halibut...
According to Lippmann, de Tocqueville concluded that the British aristocracy survived because its members "accepted heavy burdens in order that they might be allowed to continue to govern," while the French aristocracy perished because they preferred to cling "to their privileges and immunities to console themselves for having lost to the king the power to govern." U.S. business can perish or survive according to how it chooses between the same essential alternatives today. But the great danger is that U.S. businessmen will unwittingly suffer the fate of the nobility of France - unless they stop "brooding upon their grievances and their...
...This is the Law of the Yukon, that only the Strong shall thrive; That surely the Weak shall perish, and only the Fit survive." -Robert W. Service...
Charged Denman: 1) From 50,000 to 100,000 people might perish in an enemy-set fare engulfing San Francisco's wooden structures, with the prevailing west wind; 2) the heavy inbound blanket of summer fog invites a Jap attack; 3) telltale water outlines make an efficacious blackout impossible; 4) the fire department could not cope with incendiary bombs; 5) the military had discouraged a systematic tryout of the city's air raid sirens...
...lack of food in their mountain homes move the lemmings to seek Lebensraum elsewhere. (A few reactionaries stay behind to breed the nucleus of another horde.) The lemmings are great swimmers, and since they have no way of knowing how vast the seas and oceans are, plunge in and perish in their pride...