Word: save
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Baldy Mountain when John the Witch Boy crawls up from his Stygian haunts to search for his mountain lass; tangy amusement at the cracker barrel and at the revival meeting. There is rollicking music from the deep throats of the mountaineers in church, singing "Lonesome Valley" to save a boy and girl who "pleasured themselves" indiscreetly; and there is delicate ballet in an aura of the supernatural when Lista, the Dark Witch, and Croma, the Fair Witch, jealous of Barbara Allen--"we ain't got nothin' again her, only we just as soon she's daid"--flit by John...
...baby-faced lad from Athens, Ga. came to be known as "One-Slug" McWhorter ("You just sat back, pressed the button and he blew up and wasn't there any more"); and how planes are lost, in combat or accident; and how the Navy risks everything to save downed flyers from becoming drowned or captured flyers...
...Several thousand Japs are still fighting back from the old walled city, the Intramuros. Their commander has chosen annihilation, in answer to a demand that he surrender to save the lives of uncounted thousands of Filipino civilians there. One completely authenticated atrocity story is reported by American officers. From an observation post they watched while the Japs tied a naked, teen-age Filipino girl to a post in front of an archway, to keep our artillery from shelling the archway, which they used for troop movements...
...tailored battle jackets and trousers which fit him perfectly. But he is not pompous or dramatic, and is considered to be something like Omar Bradley in fatherly devotion to his troops. Despite his arguments with Patton, he is a great believer in all kinds of machines- especially artillery- which save U.S. lives...
Nazi Futility. The Germans could guess again-what was Zhukov's master plan? Would he try to maneuver the Wehrmacht into a showdown battle to save the capital? Or was he aiming at Berlin's encirclement or seizure as a swift, possibly decisive stroke...