Word: scars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Scar-lipped Major General George C. Kenney, new Allied air commander in the Southwest Pacific area (see p. 63), said his flyers were taking a five-to-one toll of Jap planes. But he added: "If anybody thinks we haven't got a fight on our hands down here they'd better roll over and start dreaming on the other side...
...Spurs Scar the Desk...
...Arnold had gone into infantry when he left the Academy in 1907, switched to flying in 1911, taking lessons from the Wrights and becoming one of the Army's first four military aviators.* From the start he was a spectacular airman. He still has a scar on his chin from the crack-up he prizes most. Hanging in the wreckage of his plane off Plymouth Beach in 1912, he saw help coming: two old codgers in G.A.R. uniforms in a rowboat. They passed him by; they were against airplanes...
...German soldiers surrounded the village at dusk, moved in, sorted out all adult males and killed them. The women were packed off to slower death in concentration camps, the children to "educational institutions." Then the Germans burned Lidice to the ground, left nothing but a great black scar in what had been green fields...
...better known as Jack Blackburn, trainer of Joe Louis; of heart disease; in Chicago. Once one of the greatest defensive fighters in ring history, he lost only two out of 92 recorded fights. (His luck in fights outside the ring earned him the title of "the animated razor scar.") He took Joe Louis in hand when Louis was a ring newcomer, coached him through 20 of his 21 title defenses...