Word: uses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President paused a moment, then said that the same thing was true in this case. In the interest of saving the lives of perhaps 250,000 American young men, he thought the decision to use the bomb was right when he made it-and he still thought it was right...
...permitted the use of enlisted men as private chauffeurs for his officers and their wives, as substitute nursemaids for their children, had at least one sergeant regularly in charge of a nursery school. ¶He pressured enlisted men into joining an organization called the Fellowship of U.S.-British Comrades (dues: $4 a year), which had done nothing so far but throw one party for lieutenant colonels and above, ¶ He insisted on so much chicken-in general and saluting in particular that Leghorn G.I.s had nicknamed their main street "Bent Arm Boulevard." ¶ He maintained a Disciplinary Training Camp...
...dirty-legged slattern in the prisoner's box squinted nervously at the six U.S. officers on the Munich dais. In staccato tones, U.S. Brigadier General Emil Kiel read her sentence: "Use Koch-life imprisonment." Justice had caught up with the redheaded, 40-year-old Witch of Buchenwald, who had prisoners at the Nazi concentration camp flogged at her pleasure and who had made gloves and lamp shades from their skins after they died of torture...
Along with Use Koch, 30 Munich co-defendants were sentenced for the murders of some of Buchenwald's 53,000 slain political prisoners. Twenty-two will hang; others got terms ranging from ten years to life...
...quarter, which had been assailed by his fellow Hindus. He appealed to Hindus to keep peace. Angry young Hindu fanatics broke up a prayer meeting at his house. For the first time, Indians stoned Gandhi's house. Gandhi spoke sadly to the crowd: "If you still prefer to use violence, remove me. It is -not me but my corpse that will be taken away from here...