Word: stabs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Osaka-born Schuichi Kusaka (TIME, Sept. 20) has my vote for a permanent position at Smith College, or any other institution that has the foresight to hire him-and I'm being trained to shoot, stab or chop Tojo's men first and talk afterward...
...collapsing and Britain was girding for invasion. He saw clearly that "it is inevitable that Italy will be involved; Il Duce has been building for this war as surely as Hitler"-and he was in the crowd beneath the balcony of the Palazzo Venetia when Mussolini delivered his stab in the back to France and called Italy to arms "to safeguard her honor, interests, and future...
...here or there there is a cowardly individual among us who might put a comfortable life above the honor and the future of our people, and who might through treason and infidelity . . . stab the fighting front in the back, we are determined . . . to cut off his head...
...Fascist regime; Italy's action was "the shameless betrayal of an ally whose deeds of valor in Italy's defense were recognized by the enemy themselves"; Badoglio acted "not only to maneuver Italy out of the war but to allow the Italian forces . . . to administer a stab in the back to the German troops on Italian soil...
...Navy's report on its stab into enemy waters 1,250 miles from Tokyo (TIME, Sept. 13) sounded like an anticlimax. According to the communiqué finally issued last week by Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet: 80% of little Marcus Island's military installations, seven twin-motored Jap bombers, hangars, fuel and ammunition dumps, shops and living quarters were destroyed; an enemy trawler was sunk. After pounding the 740-acre island for nine hours from the air, losing two fighters and one torpedo plane, the U.S. task force, commanded by air-minded...