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At the age of nine, I could cross the length of Glasgow on a succession of buses, wearing regulation garter-topped stockings and compulsory cap and - if I'd done well enough to earn the honour in last week's test - with a First World War medal on a striped ribbon pinned to my brown blazer. I must have looked like a chocolate soldier.
Ronald Frame
War
Age
World
First
Enough
Earn
Nine
Soldier
Honour
Striped
Must
Wearing
Brown
Cross
Compulsory
Week
Could
Blazer
Glasgow
Like
Looked
Well
Well Enough
First World
First World War
Test
Pinned
Stockings
Done
Ribbon
Cap
Length
Buses
Chocolate
Succession
Regulation
Medal
Last
World War
I was essentially trained by World War II vets who combined a progressive view of life with a deep distrust of anything authoritarian.
Sander Levin
Life
War
World
Progressive
Distrust
Combined
Trained
Authoritarian
Essentially
Anything
View
Who
Deep
World War
World War II
My grandmother was British and in the Women's Auxiliary Royal Air Force in World War II.
Sarah Gadon
War
Air Force
Women
World
Air
Force
Grandmother
Royal
World War
British
World War II
There aren't many great passages written about food, but I love one by George Millar, who worked for the SOE in the second world war and wrote a book called 'Horned Pigeon.' He had been on the run and hadn't eaten for a week, and his description of the cheese fondue he smells in the peasant kitchen of a house in eastern France is unbelievable.
Sebastian Faulks
Love
War
Food
Great
Book
World
Cheese
France
Run
Eastern
Eaten
Unbelievable
About
Kitchen
Week
Had
He
Written
Smells
House
Wrote
Pigeon
Passages
George
Been
His
Worked
Who
Many
Description
Second
Peasant
World War
Second World War
One could reasonably argue that the Turkish pogrom against the Armenians during World War I qualifies as a crime against humanity, as does the United States' ethnic cleansing of Native Americans.
Sebastian Junger
War
Humanity
World
Crime
States
Could
Argue
Cleansing
Armenians
Does
American
Native
Native Americans
Against
Turkish
Ethnic
Reasonably
United
United States
World War
World War I
The Kosovars were granted autonomy at the end of World War II, but then aspiring president Milosevic had the autonomy revoked in 1989, and the Dayton Accords of 1995, which ended the recent war in Bosnia and Croatia, failed to address the issue of Kosovo's status.
Sebastian Junger
War
World
President
Address
Status
Croatia
Bosnia
Had
Failed
Dayton
Kosovo
Issue
Were
End
Ended
Which
Autonomy
Then
Granted
Aspiring
Recent
World War
World War II
We have to be honest and state that Nazis were involved in all Austrian parties after the Second World War: in the Freedom Party, in the Socialist Party, and also in my party.
Sebastian Kurz
War
Freedom
World
Party
To Be Honest
State
Involved
Parties
Also
Were
After
Socialist
Socialist Party
Second
World War
Honest
Second World War
Ever since the Second World War, television signals (as well as FM radio and radar) have served as Homo sapiens' emissaries into deep space. High-frequency, high-power broadcasts have filled an Earth-centered bubble more than 60 light-years in radius with signals.
Seth Shostak
War
World
Space
Television
Signals
More
Bubble
Since
Well
Than
Radar
Sapiens
Radio
Deep
Filled
Deep Space
Ever
Served
Homo
Homo Sapiens
Second
World War
Second World War
America's exceptional nature confers upon us responsibilities. We are not exceptional because we say so; we are exceptional because, over and over, we do exceptional things - things like what Generals Marshall and MacArthur accomplished putting Europe and Japan back on their feet after World War II.
Sheldon Whitehouse
War
Nature
World
Back
Say
Responsibilities
Marshall
Exceptional
Generals
Putting
Over
Feet
Like
Because
Accomplished
America
After
Japan
Us
Europe
Things
World War
World War II
I won't stop fighting to give Nevadans access to affordable health care just because my husband is a doctor, just like I won't stop standing up for veterans because my father served in World War II.
Shelley Berkley
War
Health
Doctor
World
Veterans
Care
Father
Husband
Fighting
Give
Like
Health Care
Because
Access
Up
Affordable
Affordable Health Care
Just
Stop
Just Because
Standing
Standing Up
Served
World War
World War II
The United Nations was founded 70 years ago, at the end of World War II. Since that time, Japan has steadfastly walked the path of peace and rebuilt a nation. And, since the mid-1950s onward, we have actively worked to share our experience of development with other nations, especially in Asia.
Shinzo Abe
War
Time
Peace
Experience
World
Path
Nation
United Nations
Other
Our
Onward
Share
Development
Since
Years
Years Ago
End
Walked
Nations
Japan
Asia
Worked
Actively
United
Rebuilt
Founded
World War
World War II
In 1957, which is now 57 years ago, my grandfather and then-Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi welcomed Prime Minister Menzies as the first Australian Prime Minister to visit Japan after World War II and drove the conclusion of the Japan-Australia Agreement on Commerce.
Shinzo Abe
War
World
First
Visit
Minister
Prime
Drove
Prime Minister
Welcomed
Conclusion
Years
Years Ago
Australian
Commerce
After
Which
Japan
Grandfather
Agreement
Now
World War
World War II
I was born in Russia in 1901 of Jewish parents and came to the United States in 1922 to join my father, who left Russia for the United States before World War I.
Simon Kuznets
War
World
Father
Parents
Before
States
Born
Russia
Join
Came
Left
Who
United
United States
World War
World War I
Jewish
In the Crusades, getting the Holy Land back was the goal, and any means could be used to achieve it. World War II was a crusade. The firebombing of Tokyo by Doolittle and the carpet bombing in Germany, especially by the British, showed that.
Stanley Hauerwas
War
World
Achieve
Back
Carpet
Could
Crusade
Crusades
Goal
Germany
Any
Getting
Land
Holy
Means
Holy Land
Used
Tokyo
Bombing
World War
British
World War II
Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress.
Stephen Ambrose
War
History
World
Progress
Our
Civil
Civil War
Winning
Points
Sine
Were
Revolutionary
Revolutionary War
Turning
Turning Points
Forward
World War
World War II
If you were born in Britain after World War II, you see a continuous atmosphere of decline, moral and economic and political.
Stephen Bayley
War
You
World
Political
Moral
See
Born
Atmosphere
Economic
Were
Continuous
After
Decline
Britain
World War
World War II
As British and French imperialism ebbed following the end of the Second World War, America became the main outside player in Arab affairs.
Stephen Kinzer
War
World
Arab
Following
Imperialism
Main
Outside
French
Became
Affairs
End
America
Player
Second
World War
British
Second World War
After World War II, the winds of nationalism and anti-colonialism blew through the developing world.
Stephen Kinzer
War
World
Nationalism
Winds
Through
Developing
Developing World
Blew
After
World War
World War II
The only other human endeavor on which there's more 16-millimeter film than pro football is World War II, and we're going to pass that in 2013.
Steve Sabol
War
World
Endeavor
Other
More
Only
Football
Pass
Than
Pro
Pro Football
Going
Human
Which
Film
World War
World War II
During the Second World War, we lived in a flat on Whitechapel Road in the East End of London. At one point during the blitz, the air-raid sirens went off every night for 30 nights, and each time, my parents would grab my sister and me and take us to the shelter beneath Whitechapel underground station.
Steven Berkoff
War
Time
Me
World
Parents
Sister
Every
Nights
Beneath
Station
East
Would
London
Point
Take
Road
Underground
Shelter
Blitz
Off
End
Grab
Flat
Us
Each
Lived
Each Time
Second
Every Night
Night
World War
Second World War
Before statehood was achieved, Syria and Egypt had their tanks and military equipment lined up to invade Tel Aviv and destroy it; but the Israelis scrambled together an air force, some of it from old Second World War Messerschmidts, and the invasion was halted.
Steven Spielberg
War
Together
Air Force
World
Old
Before
Military
Air
Syria
Destroy
Some
Invade
Invasion
Had
Force
Equipment
Israelis
Tanks
Lined
Up
Scrambled
Egypt
Achieved
Second
World War
Second World War
The Japanese had a very strong belief in Bushido, death before dishonour. They were fighting for their country; they were the aggressors in World War II.
Steven Spielberg
Death
War
World
Strong
Country
Before
Fighting
Had
Were
Very
Japanese
Belief
World War
World War II
My paternal grandfather, when he was in the army in World War II - he was over in the South Pacific, and he thought he was gonna die. And he wrote a letter to my grandmother and their newborn son, thinking he wasn't gonna come home.
Sturgill Simpson
War
Home
Army
Son
World
Thought
Thinking
He
Over
Come
Wrote
South
Die
Paternal
Newborn
Pacific
Gonna
Grandfather
Grandmother
Letter
World War
World War II
If it hadn't been for Bill Macdonald's book 'The True Intrepid,' I might never have found out about the women who went down to work in secret in New York for our own spymaster Sir William Stephenson in the Second World War.
Susanna Kearsley
Work
War
Women
Book
World
Own
Down
Secret
Our
Macdonald
William
Out
About
Never
True
New
Been
Sir
York
New York
Might
Bill
Who
Found
Second
World War
Second World War
What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
War
World
Petty
Everything
Allowed
Since
Bourgeois
End
Achieved
Which
Regimes
Average
Second
World War
Mediocre
Second World War
For children of my generation, anime was an escape from Japan's loser complex following World War II. Anime wasn't foreign. It was our own.
Takashi Murakami
War
Generation
World
Own
Our
Complex
Following
My Generation
Anime
Foreign
Loser
Escape
Children
Japan
World War
World War II
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