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Emil: A foul traitor purposely failed to destroy one bridge, as he had been ordered. The half-witted and stupid Americans came across that bridge, and in cowardly manner marched around and past our brave armies. ... In order to rid our holy soil of this vermin, we made a softer peace than our heroic victories warranted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 9, 1945 | 4/9/1945 | See Source »

...enemy lost 4,500 troops in his final frenzied attack; the death march from Bataan; the sight of Filipino children impaled on Jap bayonets; the notorious compounds at Camp O'Donnell, where the death rate among captives had been as high as 250 a day; the filthy and vermin-ridden compound at Pangatian, where every foot of ground finally was a filled-in latrine; the diet of rice, sweet potatoes, radish tops, "pigweed," fish powder; the beatings with hardwood sticks; their friends who had died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: From the Grave | 2/12/1945 | See Source »

...Kitten Power in the war against vermin: . . . The achievement of Sally the Cat, producing kittens to deal with this menace, are worth noting. . . . Production remained at a fairly steady level of three litters a year . . . averaging 2% kittens a litter. . . . This is regarded as a war effort far exceeding that of. any other belligerent cat in the Allied camp and may be favorably compared to the output of Katinka Pusskin, champion mother cat of Russia and Heroine of the Soviet Union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The War Effort of N. Gubbins | 12/18/1944 | See Source »

...Russians, who look on the Hitlerites as vermin, say of recaptured terrain that it has been "cleaned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: Coiling Springs | 6/5/1944 | See Source »

...Government, he fought for slum clearance, boosted low-price housing projects, and the establishment of more parks, playgrounds and country camps for children. The influence of the quiet garden at Tongham lingered, in the resentful realism with which he described (In the Heart of South London) the stench, vermin, disease, crime, immorality in which his parishioners and their neighbors lived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Peculiar Revolutionist | 4/17/1944 | See Source »

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