Word: swearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Captain Arthur W. Wermuth, 57th Filipino Scout Regiment, has a Vandyke beard, a 45-caliber tommy gun, a Garand rifle, and an unerring eye. Fellow officers on Bataan Peninsula swear admiringly that, although thrice wounded, he has "absolutely accounted for" at least 116 Japanese dead and an inestimable number of prisoners. He dotes on lone reconnaissance patrols; for two weeks in January he spent more time behind Jap lines than in his own. How he works (according to Associated Press's Clark...
...family in Caracas, Venezuela, in 1783. As a young traveler in Rome, where he refused to kiss the Pope's slipper, he had his first vision of a free South America. Rising one day from the base of a column, he cried: "On my life and honor, I swear not to rest until I have liberated America from her tyrants...
...brusque James S. Knowlson, president of Stewart-Warner Corp. (radios), one of the first big manufacturers to go after defense orders in 1940. An old friend of Donald Nelson in Chicago, Knowlson has been helping handle priorities since last September. All members of the all-out war-effort school swear...
Students enrolled in Yale's Civilian Pilot Training Course will probably be permitted to continue their flying if they fulfill certain stipulations. The flyers are required to pledge allegiance to the United States flag, swear that they would not take Japanese sympathizers in the air with them, and establish their citizenship...
...most orndite men in the world, he was always simple and natural in manner. There was however, one respect in which he was unlike the majority of college professors today. Although he often spoke of certain books and writers with contempt, I never heard him swear. Perhaps if he had played golf...