Word: rottener
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Please keep on printing this "cheap, dirty, rotten, American propaganda." We American soldiers here in India like...
...action, for preparation, for desire; and the only thing which moves them all is a feverish eagerness to make quick money without great responsibility or work. The whole country is one great market in which all try to make immediate profits: the fruit dealer who gives you ten rotten peaches instead of twelve good ones; the speculator who buys needed products cheap, hoards them, makes them scarce, and sells them at high prices; the Comisariato [Board of Price Administration]-intended to lower prices-which works in league with the speculators. . . . And the prices go up and up, and the poor...
...bodies were strung like rags on the barbed wire around the American beachhead on Bougainville. In the torn jungle beyond, they lay like rotten fruit on the musty ground. While the attack was on-six futile assaults-the Japs had even sent their walking wounded back into action, to charge again. The Americans had mowed them down. At week's end the Japs were withdrawing, possibly to reorganize. In the month since the assault began they had lost 3,508 counted dead-20 for every American killed-and many more wiped , out in the jungle by artillery...
Sergeant Joe Judd: "The Germans are rotten as they come. I hate them. I am very happy to go to the front and take a chance on the things I have in mind. I am happy to have an opportunity to do something...
...even doubled for several days after publication). Said Albuquerque's Dr. V. H. Spensley, a dentist whose son died in a Jap prison camp: "I can't understand why such information should be brought out now . . . except to sell bonds. For that purpose it's absolutely rotten. If the morality of America has sunk so low it required this kind of propaganda to sell bonds, we wonder what the boys are fighting...