Word: tearful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First Japanese civilian communities occupied by U.S. troops in World War II were the Marianas Islands of Saipan and Tinian, last June. There, as everywhere, warfare brought normal economic processes to a shocked and paralyzed stop. But U.S. soldiers build even better than they tear down. By last week the occupied Marianas again had a healthy civilian economy operating, complete with a local variety of OPA price control...
Time after time, club owners growled and groused, threatening rebellion. On the few occasions when they failed to turn meek in due course, the Commissioner calmly threatened to tear up his contract...
...Germans were strongest, that Supreme Commander "Ike" Eisenhower apparently hoped to break them most decisively. The Big Push was violently shaking the German fence from end to end; as pickets fell off, Allied troops were shouldering through to snatch prizes like Strasbourg and Belfort. But such openings would not tear the German fence down. Only when Bradley burst through, or when Montgomery turned the end of the fence in The Netherlands, would the Allies be able to lay it flat...
...report did not measure the full rise in living cost, which he figures has gone up 44.4%. Committeeman Meany, who believes that everyone is entitled to exactly the same living standard now as before the war, said the report did not consider "hidden rises" in living costs, i.e., wear & tear on automobiles...
Poor Marie found it hard going. At the wedding, her husband refused to let the best man tear off the bride's garters and wear them in his hat-"a rude and nasty custom," he barked. At meals he propped a book against the saltcellar, read gloomily. Marie used to hear his Latin pupils screeching as he beat them (if they failed to screech in grammatical Latin, he beat them again). Marie had beautiful hair, but Husband Milton was entirely too occupied combing his own long locks to notice hers...