Word: waked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Buying a large amount of high explosives, he fashioned on ingenious time bomb whose action depended on acid eating through a cork, and took a train to Washington. His story was that he wanted only to wake the American people up to the damage which explosives like these were doing abroad. At any rate, after wandering unmolested through the empty Senate chambers with...
...technique of attack was more so. This was not just a carrier hit-&-run. Here, besides hitting the defender from the air, the attacker closed with his surface ships and shelled the enemy. And he did it without losing any ships, unlike the Japanese in similar attacks on Wake...
...once rightly described Dr. Mott as "this Ulysses of modern missionaries." For example, he has toured Latin America five times in the last two years. Though given to car, air-and seasickness, he has traveled more than 2,000,000 miles by train, plane and ship. "Sometimes when I wake in the morning," he says, "I have to ask my secretary what country...
...broadcasts to the U.S. (TIME, Jan. 26), the Jap knew better than to take the delicately sadistic Oriental line. For short wave to the U.S., Radio Tokyo put Wake Island prisoners on the air by means of recordings, some apparently made on shipboard. The messages, as heard by NBC and U.P. listening posts, indicated that the men had been treated with the respect they deserved. Examples...
...Since capture at Wake the prisoners, including myself, have been very fairly treated and are all in good health and are looking forward to getting back to their homes" (Commander Winfield Scott Cunningham, U.S.N...