Word: shedding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...switch, and called his companies: "Thanks for sticking out the war. You'll be all right now if you don't step on a mine on the way back." At the ist Marine Division, a bugler played taps. Despite the sober warnings, men dashed from their bunkers, shed their flak jackets, then stood around in little groups, talking, in a no man's land that was suddenly safe...
...over the pressures they might bring to bear. The U.N. controls his supplies, gasoline, ammunition and food; it controls the artillery and air; it even controls Korea's currency and through the currency controls the economy. On such dark and unpleasant considerations between allies whose blood had been shed together, did peace approach an unhappy land...
...recent visit to New York, Atwood told about the most troublesome story he had ever worked on for TIME. It happened near Cordova, Alaska, and involved two boys in a rowboat, who had taken a potshot at an "empty" shed on shore. The shed turned out to be packed with dynamite and was blown skyhigh. Atwood received a long list of questions about the incident. But Cordova was 250 miles and a three-day boat trip away. So he relayed the wire to a friend there, sent the answers back to New York. Discrepancies in the story turned...
...warning comes true one late autumn day, when a pathological killer gets loose in Middenshot. With balmy cunning, Herbert lures him and a Middenshot rapist to the coal shed on the pretext of helping them evade the police, and shoots a hypodermic of hydrocyanic acid into each. Before anyone has a chance to discover Herbert's private executions, he and a pair of philosophical detectives have more than enough time to labor Author Mittelholzer's pet thesis, i.e., criminals are born, not made. His further contention: eugenics experts should be given the job of blotting out young Hitlers...
...presumably the duke turns his attention to it. Now, should the duke keep his left eye on the stage and his right on his wife ? Were he cross-eyed he might do just the opposite, but naval men aren't cross-eyed. So, his wife suddenly decides to shed her coat, and does so, even as you or I. So what...