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No word occurred more often in Nurnberg's testimony than the word "death." It buzzed through the quadrilingual earphones: "Tod . . . mort . . . smert . . . death." It screamed from the piles of transcribed Nazi speeches: "Death for the Poles! . . . death for the Russians! . . . death for the Jews! . . . death for the traitors! . . ." But...
On Nanking and Kiukiang Roads, happy bankers were holding open house amid the excited bustle of guests, buffet lunch eons, congratulations and piles of flow ers sent by the city's many Chinese banks.
As by-products of the atomic bomb, the Army's civilian scientists piled up a wealth of new methods and materials useful to peace. Among the most promising: the radioactive elements from the uranium-plutonium piles at Hanford, Washington. But when U.S. industry asked the Army for more information...
Gusty, chilling winds pushed belligerently down from the Arctic and out onto the great plains, and warned wheatgrowers to hurry with the last of the harvesting. Along the country roads of Ontario and Quebec, the white breath of horses pulling farm wagons marked the imminence of winter as much as...
"The Foulest & Vilest." First witness was Brigadier Hugh Llewellyn Glyn Hughes, of the British medical corps ("I have never seen anything that would touch [Belsen]. . . . There were piles of corpses lying all over the camp. . . . The huts were full to overflowing with prisoners in every state of emaciation and disease...