Word: sackfuls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lest we have to fight two or three wars with Japan, why not take a leaf out of Cato's book and finish the job up now? We cannot sack Japan, destroy it, plow it up and sow its site with salt as the Romans did-so effectively that now after 2,000 years our boys fought over the site of ancient Carthage without knowing it had ever been there. But there is one thing we can do. We can take away from the Japanese every mechanical device of which they are possessed...
...Sack of Wallace...
Much to the relief of the Administration, the neighbors, and those addicted to Sack Drill, the place has finally quieted down. In fact, there is nothing doing. It might be the effect of the Beer Bust of last week, but we rather doubt that. We think it's probably just the heat...
What to do? One obvious move was to sack a general (see Battle of France). There was even a rumor that Hitler himself might assume command in the west, a move not calculated to reassure German soldiers lucky enough to have survived the Fuhrer's earlier experiments with the intuitive method of military command...
...sack!" proclaimed Lieut. Colonel Francis Gabreski. The 25-year-old pilot had just brought his Thunderbolt fighter back to its British base. His outfit had not sighted a single German plane that...