Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shared Sin. After eight months on Berhala the prisoners were moved to the main camp at Kuching. The women worked at forced field labor on a daily diet of one cup of rice gruel, five tablespoons of cooked rice, a few greens, tea, a little sugar. Soldier prisoners bargained with their guards for skinned cats and rats; "all of us were eating weeds and grass, and plenty of us would have liked to eat each other." For complaining of attempted rape, Mrs. Keith was beaten so badly that two ribs broke. Yet she was the favorite of Camp Commander Colonel...
Then Audisio turned to the present: "I've spoken as one whose only desire is to be a good soldier. . . . We Communists, we Partisans should be ashamed that there are still persons in Italy who question the purity of the people's sacrifices. . . . We have no fear of civil...
...Uriah is a disconcerting, fair-haired innocent-a rigidly idealistic young soldier who takes noble vows and blindly worships his king. David finally concludes that death for Uriah would be infinitely less tragic than disillusionment and marital dishonor...
...making its current appeal, PBH can no longer ask for blood on war-time grounds of glamourized patriotism. These donations will not give on-the-spot aid to the entrenched soldier who has stopped an enemy bullet; but they may very well help out a roommate or a Cambridge schoolboy...
...makes my blood boil," wrote Mrs. Wilson C. Bridges, "to think that children see such pictures. . . . I'm a soldier's wife . . and know there are many women who suffer terrible disgrace just because of such horrible pictures [see cut] which cause straying thoughts and lead to divorce.. . . God has provided us with clothes, so let's wear them...