Word: sac
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That oath, sworn in a memorv of sac rifice and bloodshed, gradually soured into a disgusted resolve. The Allies didn't pay their war debts, Uncle Sam became Uncle Shylock, the country heard that the holy crusade had been waged to make good J. P. Morgan's loans, that Our Buddies were the pawns of the munitions-makers, that the Road to War was paved with baloney; the blood had been shed not by heroes, but by suckers...
Some deep-sea fish, such as the species Photoblepharon palpebratus of the Banda Islands, have headlights powered by luminous bacteria (see cut}. Photoblepharon has arranged a "symbiosis" (mutually profitable living together), providing the bacteria with food and fine living conditions in a sac near the eye. while the bacteria furnish the fish with lanterns...