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  • The labor force was reduced to slavery, and for the first time in many decades management was able to fire people at will without granting any severance pay and to have them thrown in jail for the slightest protest.†   (source)
  • This is what the farewell tour is really all about—Mia completing the severance she began three years ago.†   (source)
  • Thus, while the bearer is no longer a member of our scholastic family, it is highly important that his severance with the college be executed as painlessly as possible.†   (source)
  • He would get vacation pay and three months' severance.†   (source)
  • She would call friends to whose faxed condolences she hadn't yet responded; she would call her lawyer about the tedious details of her severance and she would tidy all the other loose ends she'd left hanging last week.†   (source)
  • So, there is the severance.†   (source)
  • "Amanda," she had said recently, "did we give that Mrs. Girt any severance pay?"†   (source)
  • To wit, the necessary and all-too-healthy severance of my relationship with the sweet siren of Cracow—that inimitable, that incomparable, that tragically faithless daughter of joy, Poland's gem and gift to the concupiscent chiropractors of Flatbush—Sophie Zawistowska!†   (source)
  • Along with the letter was a severance check, which would be my final remuneration from Beaufort County.†   (source)
  • His severance pay was to be paid at the turn of the month, she couldn't say how much but it wasn't four figures, poor lamb.†   (source)
  • The unit procured a generous severance package from Security Police funds.†   (source)
  • Dave Severance never forgot the wording of that command.†   (source)
  • "I must confess, I shared little interest in the subject at the time," Severance told me.†   (source)
  • Severance was the only one of six Easy Company officers to walk off the island.†   (source)
  • Dave Severance became the catalyst for these reconnections.†   (source)
  • To Dave Severance, his old company commander, Doc confided: "I am not progressing as I should.†   (source)
  • The next day on Iwo my father's actions once again caught the eye of Dave Severance.†   (source)
  • Captain Dave Severance had first seen the maps a month before in the conference room at Camp Tarawa.†   (source)
  • He rang up Dave Severance at Easy Company and ordered a detail to reel out a phone wire.†   (source)
  • "I thought I was sending them to their deaths," Dave Severance would later admit to me.†   (source)
  • Captain Severance took Easy Company back south, toward Suribachi.†   (source)
  • Dave Severance, hardly an officer given to panic, recalled one especially severe barrage.†   (source)
  • "The Navy sent their carrier bombers in to bomb the volcano," as Captain Severance recalled it.†   (source)
  • Severance's thoughts reeled back through military history.†   (source)
  • Severance ordered red flares fired to warn the bombers off.†   (source)
  • Captain Severance committed Easy's 1st Platoon to the attack early in the day.†   (source)
  • Lieutenant Colonel Johnson ordered Severance to reorganize and resupply his unit.†   (source)
  • This was a time when music was considered essential in the education of an American child, and that was particularly so in Cleveland, where the fortunes amassed by the barons of industry had built Severance Hall and other great music institutions.†   (source)
  • In Cleveland we had Severance Hall, Cleveland Institute of Music, Settlement Music School, Mr. Harry Barnoff on bass, Cleveland Municipal Stadium along the shores of Lake Erie, home of the Cleveland Browns, Mr. Jim Brown, Jacobs Field, The Jake, Elliot Ness, Arsenio Hall and Mr. Henry Mancini, 'Moon River.'†   (source)
  • University Circle, named for the turnaround of the Euclid Avenue trolley from downtown, was home to Case Western Reserve University, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Cleveland Institute of Music and the jewel of the neighborhood—Severance Hall The Georgian-style home of the Cleveland Orchestra—financed by John Long Severance, the son of John D. Rockefeller's treasurer—was hailed as an architectural triumph and had hosted its first concert in 1931, with conductor Nikolai Sokoloff…†   (source)
  • Severance pay!†   (source)
  • Dave Severance set his command post as close as possible to the mountain, so that he would have a line of sight up its flank.†   (source)
  • Sometime later, Severance learned the bad news about a corporal in his platoon, one Dave Bowman, whose wife also was expecting.†   (source)
  • And a few weeks before leaving for Iwo Jima, Captain Dave Severance tries to recommend Mike for the rank of Platoon Sergeant.†   (source)
  • The next day, Frank Crowe looked on as two surviving platoon leaders met anxiously with Dave Severance.†   (source)
  • Dave Severance would be awarded a Silver Star for his masterful guidance of Easy Company throughout the Iwo Jima invasion.†   (source)
  • On March 26, Captain Severance led his 50 survivors on a tour of the newly dedicated 5th Division cemetery.†   (source)
  • Dave Severance's boys would have to rush across two hundred yards of open terrain toward the mountain's base, with very little cover of any kind.†   (source)
  • Having made his point, Mike was soon shepherding his boys across the sands to their rendezvous with Dave Severance's unit.†   (source)
  • Harry the Horse Liversedge himself picked the leader: First Lieutenant H. "George" Schrier, Severance's executive officer.†   (source)
  • When I asked Severance, many years later, exactly how it finally ended, he thought for a moment and then replied: "We had all the real estate."†   (source)
  • Dave Severance's boys had penetrated past some active Japanese units, and spent the night isolated from the battalion.†   (source)
  • Desperate for relief, Severance put in a call to Harry the Horse himself, on the colonel's private radio frequency.†   (source)
  • Severance ordered Mike, Harlon, Ira, and Franklin to the battalion command post to tie in a telephone wire that the fire team would then unreel up the mountain.†   (source)
  • The ranks of the 3rd had been shredded by combat, so Severance augmented the platoon with twelve men from his Machine Gun Platoon, and several 60mm-mortar section men.†   (source)
  • This was too much for Severance.†   (source)
  • So Severance chose the survivors of the 3rd (Doc's platoon), the closest to Colonel Johnson's command post, to become the first American platoon to climb the mountain.†   (source)
  • This action—so heroic that two sergeants and Captain Severance came forward to report it—earned him his Navy Cross, an honor he never mentioned to our family.†   (source)
  • Shortly after the bombardment erupted, Harry the Horse summoned Easy Company Captain Dave Severance and ordered him to stand by: "Are you ready to move out?"†   (source)
  • Severance surveyed his troops.†   (source)
  • As the ships began tattooing the volcano's flanks with 40mm shells, Captain Severance moved his command post back thirty yards to the water's edge, for a better view of the volcano's slopes.†   (source)
  • He cranked it to full battery power and yelled an order through the fuzzy wires to Dave Severance, who was bivouacked with Easy Company, still hugging the rocks on the southeastern point: "Send me a platoon!"†   (source)
  • In the opening moments of Japanese mortar fire, when the boys of Easy Company were still groping their way toward Captain Severance's main unit, Lloyd Thompson looked up to his right and could not believe what he saw.†   (source)
  • Amidst all his command duties, Captain Dave Severance of Easy Company began to receive some relayed requests that at first only annoyed and distracted him: Could he please provide the names of the Marines in The Photograph?†   (source)
  • The gesture was pure Severance: one minute the stern, unflappable field leader, dispensing intelligent, low-key orders under heavy fire; the next, a sensitive a nd thoughtful shepherd of his boys, in the same mold as Mike Strank.†   (source)
  • He rode the boy hard, pointing out every screwup, making him the butt of his jokes and ridicule, until Captain Severance finally noticed the problem and reassigned the boy as a runner, a messenger reporting to headquarters.†   (source)
  • Easy Company's boss was Captain Dave Severance, a tall, lean Wisconsin native; a ramrod Marine of exceptional judgment who had shown his mettle in battle, who expressed his authority through calm understatement and unflinching example.†   (source)
  • Severance replied.†   (source)
  • Severance, in his report recommending my father's Navy Cross, wrote what happened next: "As a second attack was launched, Bradley ran forward under the covering fire of the attacking platoon, rushed to the side of the casualty and remained there in the midst of the enemy's tremendous volume of defensive fire until he had verified that the man had died of his wounds."†   (source)
  • Dave Severance would later write, in his report on Doc, that "I observed him repeatedly running to any sector of the company zone of action to render first aid," and that "it would be hard to estimate the number of lives he saved by his prompt and skillful administration of medical aid, carried out with complete disregard for his own safety, nor to fully express how stimulating his devotion to duty was to the morale of those who served with him and were treated by him."†   (source)
  • A second severance from the body of our mother.†   (source)
  • Such, anyhow, were the thoughts that in those endless-seeming weeks ran in the doctor's mind, along with thoughts about his severance from his wife.†   (source)
  • This new honor came to her after an exciting joint meeting of those societies which threatened to end in violence and the severance of lifelong ties of friendship.†   (source)
  • That sound was merely the sharp and final clap-to of a door between us and all that was, all that might have been—a retroactive severance of the stream of event a forever crystallised instant in imponderable time accomplished by three weak yet indomitable women which, preceding the accomplished fact which we declined, refused, robbed the brother of the prey, reft the murderer of a victim for his very bullet.†   (source)
  • Why do I feel that there are severances and oppositions in the mind, as there are strains from obvious causes on the body?†   (source)
  • She thought of the severance of the twins; they had entered life within twenty minutes of each other; her heart was gripped with pity at the thought of the boy's loneliness.†   (source)
  • The so-called rites of passage, which occupy such a prominent place in the life of a primitive society (ceremonials of birth, naming, puberty, marriage, burial, etc.), are distinguished by formal, and usually very severe, exercises of severance, whereby the mind is radically cut away from the attitudes, attachments, and life patterns of the stage being left behind.†   (source)
  • It is true that every time my life was shattered in this way I had in the end gained something, some increase in liberty and in spiritual growth and depth, but with it went an increased loneliness, an increasing chill of severance and estrangement.†   (source)
  • …retrograde, reverse; from abysmal and chaotic dark to eternal and abysmal dark completing his descending (do you mark the gradation) ellipsis, clinging, trying to cling with vain unsubstantial hands to what be hoped would hold him, save him, arrest him—Ellen (do you mark them), myself, then last of all that fatherless daughter of Wash Jones' only child who, so I heard once, died in a Memphis brothel—to find severance (even if not rest and peace) at last in the stroke of a rusty scythe.†   (source)
  • But for him, perhaps, this severance need never have taken place.†   (source)
  • It was absolutely necessary to communicate with Sue, though two or three days earlier they had agreed to mutual severance.†   (source)
  • Rosemary had never done much thinking, save about the illimitability of her mother's perfections, so this final severance of the umbilical cord disturbed her sleep.†   (source)
  • All the way they were broadened by travel, and discovered the wonders of the great world: the movie theater at Roundup, which had for orchestra not only a hand-played piano but also a violin; the black fox farm at Melody; and the Severance water-tower, which was said to be the tallest in Central North Dakota.†   (source)
  • His name she had obviously never used during their separation, and her dignified sense of their total severance was shown not much less by this abstention than by the hardships she had chosen to undergo (of which he now learnt for the first time) rather than apply to his father for more funds.†   (source)
  • On the day when in the drawing room of the house in Arbaty Street she had gone up to him in her brown dress, and given herself to him without a word—on that day, at that hour, there took place in her heart a complete severance from all her old life, and a quite different, new, utterly strange life had begun for her, while the old life was actually going on as before.†   (source)
  • But when it is a beloved and intimate human being that is dying, besides this horror at the extinction of life there is a severance, a spiritual wound, which like a physical wound is sometimes fatal and sometimes heals, but always aches and shrinks at any external irritating touch.†   (source)
  • Your dear friend followed me to my retreat, and was very droll on the severance of the connection; though he was sorry, too, for the excellent people (in their way the best he had ever met), and deplored the necessity of breaking mere house-flies on the wheel.†   (source)
  • When he had parted from her before, he had been in ignorance of facts which gave a new aspect to the relation between them, and made a more absolute severance than he had then believed in.†   (source)
  • Whatever progress of population there may be in the British Canadas, is only for their own early severance of their present colonial relation to the little island three thousand miles across the Atlantic; soon to be followed by Annexation, and destined to swell the still accumulating momentum of our progress.†   (source)
  • She had sighed for her self-completeness then, and now she cried aloud against the severance of the union she had deplored.†   (source)
  • But calmly considered it was not likely that such a severance as now existed would ever close up: she would have to live on as a painful object, isolated, and out of place.†   (source)
  • …morning by the post, the following letter, dated Canterbury, and addressed to me at Doctor's Commons; which I read with some surprise: 'MY DEAR SIR, 'Circumstances beyond my individual control have, for a considerable lapse of time, effected a severance of that intimacy which, in the limited opportunities conceded to me in the midst of my professional duties, of contemplating the scenes and events of the past, tinged by the prismatic hues of memory, has ever afforded me, as it ever…†   (source)
  • He went to study in Paris with the determination that when he provincial home again he would settle in some provincial town as a general practitioner, and resist the irrational severance between medical and surgical knowledge in the interest of his own scientific pursuits, as well as of the general advance: he would keep away from the range of London intrigues, jealousies, and social truckling, and win celebrity, however slowly, as Jenner had done, by the independent value of his work.†   (source)
  • His own death came on him as he spoke, and soul from body, bemoaning severance from youth and manhood, slipped to be wafted to the underworld.†   (source)
  • …with emotional lips repeating, (So hard for his hand to release those hands—no more will they meet, No more for communion of sorrow and joy, of old and young, A far-stretching journey awaits him, to return no more,) Shunning, postponing severance—seeking to ward off the last word ever so little, E'en at the exit-door turning—charges superfluous calling back— e'en as he descends the steps, Something to eke out a minute additional—shadows of nightfall deepening, Farewells, messages…†   (source)
  • *the severance Alas, mine hearte's queen! alas, my wife!†   (source)
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