Word: slits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born. To David Niven, 35, Scottish-born cinemactor, lately a British Army lieutenant colonel; and Primula Rollo . Niven, 27, one of the first WAAFs (they met bottoms up after a dive into a slit-trench in a 1940 air-raid): their second child, second son; in London. Name: James Graham. Weight...
...military hospital, Tojo explained why he had tried to kill himself with a pistol instead of by traditional harakiri: he had had no aide (kaishaku) to stand by and strike off his head with a two-handed sword after he had slit his abdomen with a ceremonial dagger. In some recent Japanese pistol suicides a kaishaku with a pistol stood by to blow out the suicide's brains. Said Tojo: "I did not want to mess up my head...
...They do as their men tell them, and many of them have been told to kill you. Sex is one of the oldest and most effective weapons in history. The Geisha girl knows how to wield it charmingly. She may entice you only to poison you. She may slit your throat. Stay away from the women of Japan - all of them...
...crowd broke into a faint cheer. A narrow slit had appeared in the eastern altocumulus cloud bank. As the sun climbed toward the slit and the stop watches ticked on toward the scheduled time, the expedition held its breath. At 6:07 the sun, already in partial eclipse, broke into the clear. At 6:15 on the dot, Dr. Stewart shouted...
...face down in the slit trench with the brim of my helmet in the soft ground, as close to the earth as I could get, and held my breath. . . . When the bombs went off and I realized that I hadn't been hit, I found I couldn't draw a full breath. My chest felt contracted and tight. I was cold...