Word: yanke
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...Yank correspondent covering the Yamashita trial. I was convinced that he was a man of unusual caliber who was being railroaded. I left the trial after nine days because I felt as though I were watching a lynching. The twelve reporters who remained for the whole thing held a secret vote on whether Yamashita should be hanged. Their vote...
...Yank at Oxford
...looked every bit as sound. In 1940 President Roosevelt, announcing the 99-year lease of the bases from England, had called them "gifts, generously given and gratefully received." Since then, both sides seemed to live up to the spirit of the exchange. Some 900 U.S. servicemen married Newfoundland girls. Yank troops visited Newfoundlanders' homes; islanders were invited to the Americans' parties and theaters. To all appearances, the hospitable Newfies and the free-spending Yanks had worked out a near-perfect landlord & tenant arrangement with never a thought of breaking the lease...
...Yank Gots to Third...
...reader is sure gonna have one, too, if he plunges any deeper into this indiscriminate flood of words. Baxter Bernstein recounts the anguish of a not-so-young Yank who, on the eve of World War II, feels bound to make a confession: although he has always meant to write a book that "would be reviewed by Edmund...