Word: whores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Spirit v. Ghost. Still Time to Die is often frankly bitter, often overemotional, occasionally theatrical (in phrases such as "Battles are merely the flashing, seductive garments that hide the passionate but terrible whore's body of war"). But it carries the conviction of a man whose spirit has been tried by seven years' intimacy with war's "dumb, bestial suffering, weariness, and utter and devastating exhaustion...
Refuge. The Parnikovs, a couple of papier-mâché old guard aristocrats, took her in. They turned against her when she visited their daughter Lilian, a long-nosed, ugly, attractive whore who lived with a killer for the secret police. "He is dreadful," said the old people. "He wears a shamelessly new leather coat, lives in scandalous plenty-she told me they even had meat and wine and sugar, and he shoots people by the dozen. They have no home life...
Presently the B-26 was being called "The Flying Prostitute" (because some airmen thought that the 65-foot wingspread, for so much airplane, constituted "no visible means of support"). By derivation, it became "The Baltimore Whore...
Thursday. Principal Herbert W. Smith of Chicago's Francis W. Parker School (375 children, all ages) pooh-poohed the Post Office, testified he had found such words as "whore" in Shakespeare, "sono-va-bitch" in the Chicago Tribune. He looked at an Esquire cartoon in which a harem beauty with a "Happy Birthday" tag on her ankle approaches two Yanks in the desert. Says one Yank to the other...
They published this side by side with the official police photo-a puffy, bloody, battered face (see cuts). The Civil Liberties Committee rounded up Brinkley and two others arrested with Melendes-a pert little whore named Wanita Johnson and a soldier named Private Edward Buckshot...