Word: utters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with Company C's first fearful, fascinated look at death in North Africa, the G.I.'s lives are played out in endless rain,' mud, hunger, boredom, weariness and fear. The film's soldiers are grimy and unshaven; they do not march but stumble on in utter weariness; they talk in low, tired tones...
There are millions of men and women of good will in Japan . . . who are a necessary foundation stone in the structure of world peace." To cut the war short of Japan's "utter ruin," the signers asked for "clear and immediate formulation of American objectives [and] conditions of surrender...
Said the U.S. Army Air Forces chief: Superfortresses, backed by Liberators, would deliver bombs to Japan at the rate of 2,000,000 tons a year. "We are going to do the same thing to industrial Japan that we did to industrial Germany. ... It requires the complete and utter destruction of these industrial areas and that is what we will do. ... Japan will be a terrible place to live in ... [but] if Japan wants it, by God, she's going...
...only dependable man in the Utopia was Grandfather Bucklin, a rangy 88-year-old who strode the porch in a bathrobe and forbade the children to utter a word. Right after Grandfather Bucklin's funeral, the hitherto-speechless Aleck burst into a torrent of verbiage that left his mother speechless with admiration. It is no wonder, says Biographer Adams, that Woollcott grew into "a devoted crusader for free speech and independent thought...
...system symbolized by Hirohito must be wrecked as thoroughly as Hitler's Reich. Only utter defeat can destroy the myths of invincibility and divinity. The Allies must carry through the post-victory task of remolding the Japanese mind...