Word: thousand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...knows whether this peril is simply the ancient Oriental device of inflicting a thousand cuts [where] no one of the cuts is fatal, but over a long enough period the victim dies. It may be the thousand cuts or it may be all-out atomic warfare . . . The hour is very late . . . Whether we still have a day or a year or three years or ten years, not a second should be lost...
...Adolf Hitler's Germany, Sculptor Josef Thorak had a big job: official sculptor of the Third Reich. His huge statuary was to decorate the squares and public buildings of the city that Hitler was to make the "thousand-year capital" of the Reich. To house Thorak's enormous work in preparation, some of it six stories high and weighing 1,000 tons, the Führer built him a studio as high and wide as a Zeppelin hangar. When the job proved to be insecure, Sculptor Thorak retired to semiobscurity in Bavaria...
...Hirohito and Henry Pu-Yi, the puppet Emperor of Manchukuo. The Japanese-led Manchurian army had clashed with Soviet-backed Mongol forces. Said TIME: "In the deep fastness of Western Asia, along nebulous frontiers supposed to divide Soviet power from the forces of Empire, battle was joined as a thousand Mongol rifles cracked and light Japanese tanks whirled into action. The fighting last week came as a grim climax. Preludes have been more than 100 frontier 'incidents' as the Japanese Empire and its vassals steadily encroached toward the Soviet Union...
...volunteers," he said. "None of you have to go on this mission if you don't want to. Shortly before midnight we will transfer to the Mansfield. About a thousand yards offshore we will leave the Mansfield in a small boat. Our job will be to mine a railroad tunnel near the beach...
...apples of ten thousand tribes...