All 6 Uses
atrocity
in
Flags of Our Fathers
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- The Marines headed for Guadalcanal had heard of the atrocities committed by the Japanese army over the years.†
Chpt 3. *atrocities = actions that are exceptionally bad or cruel
- In 1938 Life magazine published photographs, smuggled out by a German businessman, of Japanese atrocities in Nanking.†
Chpt 3.
- However, the Marines on Guadalcanal had not experienced the atrocities firsthand and found them hard to believe.†
Chpt 3.
- All armies commit atrocities against their opponents, but these are usually isolated incidents not condoned by higher officials.†
Chpt 6.
- By 1945 the Marines were aware of a number of Japanese atrocities.†
Chpt 6.
- It would be years before I read of the atrocities the Japanese military machine had perpetrated on millions of people; years before I discovered that the "self-defense" rationale I was spouting off about had been rejected by the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal as bogus.†
Chpt 20.
Definitions:
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(1)
(atrocity) an action that is exceptionally bad or cruel
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)