Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fleet visiting San Francisco, he had said there should never be a war in the Pacific, that should there ever be a war between Japan and the U.S., both would be punished by the heavens. He had never changed that opinion. The Emperor, he knew well, held the same view...
...last Diet sessions before the surrender he expressed this view again, only to be vigorously opposed by members who replied: "Not we, but America will be punished by the heavens." But most of the Diet supported Suzuki and he received many unofficial suggestions that an attempt at peace be made...
They began to see more planes, which they identified in the distance as Japanese. Then one day a storm broke over them, flung them up on the crest of a wave and gave them a sudden, unbelievable view of a patch of green. By that time, incapable even of joy, Zamperini could only say flatly: "There's an island over there." They paddled weakly all that day and night, until a second storm swept them inside a coral-ringed lagoon in the Marshalls. It was the 47th day. Spotted by Japanese fishermen, Zamperini and Philips were lifted from...
...murmur rippled through the tense crowd as the traitor reached the scaffold. The sentence was read again. The executioners lifted him by a leather strap under his armpits into the crowd's full view. They slipped the noose around his neck. Suddenly, in guttural German, Pfitzner half-shouted, half-croaked...
...more successful device is the use of the voices of what seems like hundreds of individuals. Each voice, in the inflection of its own part of the world and in the jargon of a particular martial trade, gives one molecular view of the campaign. A Brooklyn tankman tells of his disgust when his tank runs out of gas, a Canadian describes the hideous fighting around Caen, a Royal Navy man admits his road sickness when his assault craft is trucked cross-country to the Rhine, a Negro cook tells how he learned to fire a bazooka at Bastogne, a primly...