Word: slain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japanese soldier's usefulness to the Emperor is not ended when he is killed. According to the nationalistic Nipponese religious teachings, soldiers slain in battle become minor deities and go right on fighting the enemy in gremlinesque fashion. They foul up his radio equipment, make his detachments fire at each other, worry and scare his troops to the point of suicide...
Another is Luis Procuna, who has fought only three bulls this season and each time has been awarded (by acclamation) not only the right to cut off one or both ears of the slain bulls, but both ears and the tail (very high approval...
...artillery and pillbox-killing flamethrowers, they had overwhelmed the Jap defenses in four days and a few hours. Now they pressed into the jungle hinterland, where a Jap remnant had dragged artillery to shell the airfield. Enemy resistance was fanatic. At this spot alone, almost 1,000 Japs were slain, many in suicidal counterattacks. Reported Navy Secretary Frank Knox: for 117 marines killed at Cape Gloucester, 2,100 Japs had died...
Nancy Oakes de Marigny, high-styled young daughter of the mysteriously slain Sir Harry Oakes, popped up in Miami and did some explaining: 1) she needs an operation on her mouth, is going back to Nassau to sell her furniture because the Bahamas forbid her to take her inheritance out of the country; 2) playful Husband "Freddie," deported to Havana after the Oakes trial, is not working because Cuba's labor laws governing aliens forbid him to; 3) Freddie "is restless with nothing...
...escape from war news. In Washington, a 30-year-old blonde was found in the street, shot to death. A woman who saw a man at the scene said he scurried away after yelling, "What the hell are you looking at?" A 14-year-old girl was slain in Massachusetts, a student Army nurse, 19, at Poughkeepsie, N.Y. In Lubbock, Tex. a doctor and his wife were bludgeoned to death in what an enthusiastic reporter called "one of the greatest murder mysteries in Texas annals...