Word: worn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bataan's end was different. Here was no blow that could be repaired in a navy yard. With Bataan went 36,000 or more courageous U.S. soldiers-heroes, three out of four of whom were sons of the Philippines. They had been worn to hollow shadows of men by 15 days of smashing by the finest troops of the Son of Heaven. Because the U.S. had been well satisfied with the world it lived in, had pinched its boundless flood of pennies and sat alone, those U.S. soldiers had stumbled ragged, sleepless and half-starved through the last days...
...copies. Theoretically the tailor-made play should beat the makeshift novel all hollow; actually it can't come near it. Steinbeck's fable of how some unnamed but obviously Nazi invaders take over an unlocalized but obviously Norwegian mining town, meet with icy resistance and are themselves worn down, never really comes to life in the theater...
...railroads cannot have any more cars at all (or locomotives either) until WPB fixes a new quota-and the best the railroads can hope for is probably 18,000 out of the 130,000 cars asked for-barely enough to replace worn-out equipment...
...years the obedient, work-worn people had patiently wondered why, despite the boasts of the generals, the Empire was not triumphant in war; why the young men kept going to China and the pathetic boxes of their ashes kept coming back. But now it was almost unbelievably different. Already the people might look almost defiantly into the mild skies where the foreign bombers had been expected. Glorious had been Japan's victories. Instead of being attacked from the air, Japan was driving the rich, vain, intolerable British and Americans from the Orient. The New Asia was coming to pass...
...guard. Roger Hicks, left forward, is little larger or huskier than a jockey, while Scotty Hamilton, the other forward, is a real fat boy. Compared to most, Center Dick Kesling is virtually a runt. The team's gold-and-blue shirts have white jersey half-sleeves like those worn by British track athletes and give the impression that they were run up by the players' mothers or that the boys forgot to remove their underwear. Coach Dyke Raese is a dead ringer for Hollywood's Humphrey Bogart...