Word: regularization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...live, he cried: "I want to die." His death would be only a beginning. In Manila Colonel Alva Carpenter was preparing a war-criminals list running into thousands of names. Prison-camp atrocities (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) spurred preparations for punishing the guilty. What ever the shortcomings of the U.S. Regular Army brass might be, lack of esprit de corps was not among them. The war-crimes provisions of the surrender would be enforced by men raging mad at what the Japs did to fellow U.S. soldiers...
...Berlin the U.S. Army got tough with municipal officers. A month ago the Army had told city officials to get the people out rounding up wood to heat their homes this winter. Berlin's Oberbürgermeister dallied, spoke of combining wood-gathering with regular forest thinning. Last week U.S. soldiers rounded up laborers in Berlin, packed them off to Grunewald. There they were given saws and axes, told to get busy. They...
...Tartu beach, who worked neck-deep in the freezing, oil-fouled water day after grueling day, were not particularly brave men, but they came to regard the regular Jap air raids as something in the nature of a diversion. These were the sad sacks of 1942 who would go on to beach LCIs at Saipan and Tarawa, Iwo and Okinawa, who would come back to America to find themselves half-strangers in their own land...
...radio success is a surprise to almost everyone but herself ("I've always had to sneak in and make good"). She got her first radio break as a guest on Rudy Vallee's Village Store in 1941, was enough of a hit to be hired as a regular. Then Vallee joined the Coast Guard and Co-Star John Barrymore died. Everybody, including the sponsor, thought the program would collapse with just Joan Davis to hold it up. Instead, its popularity climbed. Last year Hooper for some time rated it the No. 6 attraction...
...pour out propaganda stories, one of them accusing U.S. soldiers of raping Jap girls. At week's end, U.S. reporters discovered that Domei, far from being put out of business, had signed an agreement with the Chinese Central News Agency to transmit its news to China on the regular Domei propaganda broadcast...