Word: smite
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...four years of U.N. debates, Russia's Andrei Vishinsky has led before his resigned listeners a never-ending proverb-and-parable parade of sly foxes, bad wolves, innocent lambs, triumphant virtues and defeated vices. Last week, Britain's smart, literate Hector McNeil rose to smite the master with his own weapon...
Like Job, the British people had been "made to possess many months of misery." They had suffered sorely and patiently until it seemed that Satan must surely run out of afflictions with which to smite them. But last week came more blows...
...shadow of a shady past rose last week to smite ambitious Ichiro Hatoyama. His Liberal Party had won a thumping plurality in Japan's first postwar Diet elections; after long hesitation Premier Shidehara had recommended the stocky, 63-year-old politico to the Emperor as his successor. Then the Allied Supreme Commander spoke. "The Japanese Government," said a MacArthur directive, "having failed to act on its own responsibility, the Supreme Commander has determined the facts relative to Hatoyama's eligibility . . . finds he is an undesirable person." Hatoyama...
...named Professor Stearns. My first assignment was to write a description of our rooms. I had the great honor and distinction of having my little offering cited by him as an example of the type of thing he was hoping to get, largely because I used the word 'smite,' as in the phrase 'something smites...
...large cities, and were preparing variations on their attack pattern. Tons of British pathfinder bombs had been shipped to the Marianas and would soon permit the 21st Bomber Command to bomb at night with greater precision. U.S. Army officers announced that fleets of 1,000 planes would soon smite Japan. Tokyo warned its medium and small-size cities to expect the worst. The big bombers were not the only planes that struck Japan. Kyushu Island, whence enemy planes attack Okinawa, was worked over for several days by U.S. fighters from carrier decks and land bases...