Word: shuns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hates It. Syndicator Carlin says "Joe" lives because Mauldin's native integrity has made him shun the vaudeville or adventure-story techniques that rob other comic war heroes of reality. Mauldin's explanation is simpler. He says "Joe" is just the average U.S. combat soldier, leading a life he hates so bitterly that he is fighting a war to get it over with...
...most interesting point was: 1) Christian, 2) commonsensible. The point: charity towards a defeated Germany. They held that the United Nations must "remove once and for all the menace of German aggression and secure full atonement for the appalling sufferings inflicted by Nazi Germany." But Christians must shun "a mood of vengefullness" or "breaches of basic human rights . . . against the entire German people." If vengefulness dictates the peace, it "will be repudiated as unjust by later generations . . . permanently frustrate hopes of peace and unity in Europe...
...provinces. The Navy steamed into the harbor. Communists, Socialists, Radicals were eager to pour their multitudes into the streets. Even the Catholic Church, which has favored authoritarianism on the clerical Franco model, was turning against the militarists. Several high clerics, many humble priests were warning good Catholics to shun them...
...periods off the barren Alaska land, subzero blasts to mosquito-clotted summer mugginess. Their physical endurance is far beyond the ordinary soldier's; one Scout walked 90 miles over corrugated tundra in three days. Scouts use Trapper Nelson packs instead of the Army's steel-framed rucksack, shun Army K and C rations for dehydrated beef and other foods which weigh less. A Scout's greatest fear is that he may fall through the ice, numb his hands so that he is unable to strike a match...
...Miles an Hour. Under battle conditions, long convoys of blacked-out trucks nightly set out from each camp for supply dumps 30 and more miles away. They shun paved roads and blindly poke their painful way across country. Speeds are four to six miles an hour. For days on end, service troops spend less than four of every 24 hours in bed. They try to catnap in trucks grinding across the choppy desert; it is like sleeping in a concrete mixer...