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`` I will die rich ''. | die | {
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`` That will be $ 1.80 '', said the gas station man. | be | {
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`` That will be $ 1.80 '', said the gas station man. | said | {
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`` The windshield looks pretty clean ''. | looks | {
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When I wheeled about, finned fore and aft, I was the darling of the doormen. | wheeled | {
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When I wheeled about, finned fore and aft, I was the darling of the doormen. | was | {
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Dollar bills skidded off my hands and they tipped their caps politely. | skidded | {
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Dollar bills skidded off my hands and they tipped their caps politely. | tipped | {
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With a small bomb, I tuck it between Cadillacs. | tuck | {
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( The last doorman that saw me do that should calm himself. | saw | {
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( The last doorman that saw me do that should calm himself. | do | {
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( The last doorman that saw me do that should calm himself. | calm | {
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High blood pressure can get the best of any of us. ) | get the best | {
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She was just another freighter from the States, and she seemed as commonplace as her name. | was | {
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She was just another freighter from the States, and she seemed as commonplace as her name. | seemed | {
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She was the John Harvey, one of those Atlantic sea-horses that had sailed to Bari to bring beans, bombs, and bullets to the U. S. Fifteenth Air Force, to Field Marshal Montgomery 's Eighth Army then racing up the calf of the boot of Italy in that early December of 1943. | was | {
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She was the John Harvey, one of those Atlantic sea-horses that had sailed to Bari to bring beans, bombs, and bullets to the U. S. Fifteenth Air Force, to Field Marshal Montgomery 's Eighth Army then racing up the calf of the boot of Italy in that early December of 1943. | sailed | {
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She was the John Harvey, one of those Atlantic sea-horses that had sailed to Bari to bring beans, bombs, and bullets to the U. S. Fifteenth Air Force, to Field Marshal Montgomery 's Eighth Army then racing up the calf of the boot of Italy in that early December of 1943. | bring | {
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She was the John Harvey, one of those Atlantic sea-horses that had sailed to Bari to bring beans, bombs, and bullets to the U. S. Fifteenth Air Force, to Field Marshal Montgomery 's Eighth Army then racing up the calf of the boot of Italy in that early December of 1943. | racing | {
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The John Harvey arrived in Bari, a port on the Adriatic, on November 28 th, making for Porto Nuovo, which, as the name indicates, was the ancient city 's new and modern harbor. | arrived | {
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The John Harvey arrived in Bari, a port on the Adriatic, on November 28 th, making for Porto Nuovo, which, as the name indicates, was the ancient city 's new and modern harbor. | making | {
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The John Harvey arrived in Bari, a port on the Adriatic, on November 28 th, making for Porto Nuovo, which, as the name indicates, was the ancient city 's new and modern harbor. | indicates | {
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The John Harvey arrived in Bari, a port on the Adriatic, on November 28 th, making for Porto Nuovo, which, as the name indicates, was the ancient city 's new and modern harbor. | was | {
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Hardly anyone ashore marked her as she anchored stern-to off Berth 29 on the mole. | marked | {
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Hardly anyone ashore marked her as she anchored stern-to off Berth 29 on the mole. | anchored | {
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If anyone thought of the John Harvey, it was to observe that she was straddled by a pair of ships heavily laden with high explosive and if they were hit the John Harvey would likely be blown up with her own ammo and whatever else it was that she carried. | thought of | {
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If anyone thought of the John Harvey, it was to observe that she was straddled by a pair of ships heavily laden with high explosive and if they were hit the John Harvey would likely be blown up with her own ammo and whatever else it was that she carried. | observe | {
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If anyone thought of the John Harvey, it was to observe that she was straddled by a pair of ships heavily laden with high explosive and if they were hit the John Harvey would likely be blown up with her own ammo and whatever else it was that she carried. | straddled | {
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If anyone thought of the John Harvey, it was to observe that she was straddled by a pair of ships heavily laden with high explosive and if they were hit the John Harvey would likely be blown up with her own ammo and whatever else it was that she carried. | hit | {
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If anyone thought of the John Harvey, it was to observe that she was straddled by a pair of ships heavily laden with high explosive and if they were hit the John Harvey would likely be blown up with her own ammo and whatever else it was that she carried. | blown up | {
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If anyone thought of the John Harvey, it was to observe that she was straddled by a pair of ships heavily laden with high explosive and if they were hit the John Harvey would likely be blown up with her own ammo and whatever else it was that she carried. | was | {
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If anyone thought of the John Harvey, it was to observe that she was straddled by a pair of ships heavily laden with high explosive and if they were hit the John Harvey would likely be blown up with her own ammo and whatever else it was that she carried. | carried | {
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Which was poison gas. | was | {
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It had required the approval of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt before the John Harvey could be loaded with 100 tons of mustard gas and despatched to the Italian warfront. | required | {
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It had required the approval of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt before the John Harvey could be loaded with 100 tons of mustard gas and despatched to the Italian warfront. | loaded | {
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It had required the approval of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt before the John Harvey could be loaded with 100 tons of mustard gas and despatched to the Italian warfront. | despatched | {
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For in a world as yet unacquainted with the horrors of the mushroom cloud, poison gas was still regarded as the ultimate in hideous weapons. | regarded as | {
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Throughout the early years of World War 2,, reports persisted that the Axis powers had used gas - Germany in Russia, Japan in China again. | persisted | {
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Throughout the early years of World War 2,, reports persisted that the Axis powers had used gas - Germany in Russia, Japan in China again. | used | {
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They were always denied. | denied | {
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Influential people in America were warning the Pentagon to be prepared against desperation gas attacks by the Germans in future campaigns. | warning | {
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Influential people in America were warning the Pentagon to be prepared against desperation gas attacks by the Germans in future campaigns. | be | {
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Influential people in America were warning the Pentagon to be prepared against desperation gas attacks by the Germans in future campaigns. | prepared | {
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Some extremists went so far as to urge our using it first. | went | {
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Some extremists went so far as to urge our using it first. | urge | {
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Some extremists went so far as to urge our using it first. | using | {
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To silence extremists, to warn the Axis, President Roosevelt issued this statement for the Allies in August : | silence | {
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To silence extremists, to warn the Axis, President Roosevelt issued this statement for the Allies in August : | warn | {
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To silence extremists, to warn the Axis, President Roosevelt issued this statement for the Allies in August : | issued | {
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`` From time to time since the present war began there have been reports that one or more of the Axis powers were seriously contemplating use of poisonous gas or noxious gases or other inhumane devices of warfare. | began | {
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`` From time to time since the present war began there have been reports that one or more of the Axis powers were seriously contemplating use of poisonous gas or noxious gases or other inhumane devices of warfare. | been | {
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`` From time to time since the present war began there have been reports that one or more of the Axis powers were seriously contemplating use of poisonous gas or noxious gases or other inhumane devices of warfare. | contemplating | {
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I have been loath to believe that any nation, even our present enemies, could or would be willing to loose upon mankind such terrible and inhumane weapons. | been | {
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I have been loath to believe that any nation, even our present enemies, could or would be willing to loose upon mankind such terrible and inhumane weapons. | believe | {
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I have been loath to believe that any nation, even our present enemies, could or would be willing to loose upon mankind such terrible and inhumane weapons. | be | {
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I have been loath to believe that any nation, even our present enemies, could or would be willing to loose upon mankind such terrible and inhumane weapons. | loose | {
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`` However, evidence that the Axis powers are making significant preparations indicative of such an intention is being reported with increasing frequency from a variety of sources. | reported | {
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`` Use of such weapons has been outlawed by the general opinion of civilized mankind. | outlawed | {
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This country has not used them, and I hope that we never will be compelled to use them. | used | {
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This country has not used them, and I hope that we never will be compelled to use them. | hope | {
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This country has not used them, and I hope that we never will be compelled to use them. | compelled | {
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This country has not used them, and I hope that we never will be compelled to use them. | use | {
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I state categorically that we shall under no circumstances resort to the use of such weapons unless they are first used by our enemies ''. | state | {
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I state categorically that we shall under no circumstances resort to the use of such weapons unless they are first used by our enemies ''. | resort | {
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I state categorically that we shall under no circumstances resort to the use of such weapons unless they are first used by our enemies ''. | used | {
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The following month the invasion of Italy was begun, and Roosevelt gave effect to his warning by consenting to the stockpiling of poison gas in southern Italy. | begun | {
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The following month the invasion of Italy was begun, and Roosevelt gave effect to his warning by consenting to the stockpiling of poison gas in southern Italy. | consenting | {
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Bari was chosen as a depot, not only for its seeming safety, but because of its proximity to airfields. | chosen | {
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Any retaliatory gas attack would be airborne. | be | {
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It would be made in three waves - the first to lay down a smokescreen, the second to drop the gas bombs, the third to shower incendiaries which would burn everything below. | made | {
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It would be made in three waves - the first to lay down a smokescreen, the second to drop the gas bombs, the third to shower incendiaries which would burn everything below. | lay down | {
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It would be made in three waves - the first to lay down a smokescreen, the second to drop the gas bombs, the third to shower incendiaries which would burn everything below. | drop | {
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It would be made in three waves - the first to lay down a smokescreen, the second to drop the gas bombs, the third to shower incendiaries which would burn everything below. | shower | {
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It would be made in three waves - the first to lay down a smokescreen, the second to drop the gas bombs, the third to shower incendiaries which would burn everything below. | burn | {
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So the vile cargo went into the hole of the John Harvey. | went into | {
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A detachment of six men from the 701 st Chemical Maintenance Company under First Lt. Howard D. Beckstrom went aboard, followed by Lt. Thomas H. Richardson, the Cargo Security Officer. | went | {
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A detachment of six men from the 701 st Chemical Maintenance Company under First Lt. Howard D. Beckstrom went aboard, followed by Lt. Thomas H. Richardson, the Cargo Security Officer. | followed | {
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Secrecy was paramount. | was | {
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Only a few other people - very important people - knew of the nitrogen-mustard eggs nestled below decks. | knew | {
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Only a few other people - very important people - knew of the nitrogen-mustard eggs nestled below decks. | nestled | {
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No one else must know. | know | {
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Thus, in the immemorial way - in the way of the right hand that knows and the left that does not - was the stage set for tragedy at Bari. | knows | {
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Thus, in the immemorial way - in the way of the right hand that knows and the left that does not - was the stage set for tragedy at Bari. | set | {
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It was the night of December 2, 1943, and it was growing dark in Bari. | was | {
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It was the night of December 2, 1943, and it was growing dark in Bari. | growing | {
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It was getting on toward 7 o ' clock and the German Me-210 plane had been and gone on its eighth straight visit. | getting on | {
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It was getting on toward 7 o ' clock and the German Me-210 plane had been and gone on its eighth straight visit. | been | {
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It was getting on toward 7 o ' clock and the German Me-210 plane had been and gone on its eighth straight visit. | gone | {
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Capt. A. B. Jenks of the Office of Harbor Defense was very worried. | was | {
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He knew that German long-range bombers had been returning to the attack in Italy. | knew | {
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He knew that German long-range bombers had been returning to the attack in Italy. | returning | {
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On November 24 th, they had made a raid on La Maddalena. | made | {
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Two days later, some 30 of them had struck at a convoy off Bougie, sinking a troopship - and it had been that very night that the Me-210 had made its first appearance. | struck | {
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Two days later, some 30 of them had struck at a convoy off Bougie, sinking a troopship - and it had been that very night that the Me-210 had made its first appearance. | sinking | {
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After it had reappeared the next two nights, Jenks went to higher headquarters and said : | reappeared | {
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After it had reappeared the next two nights, Jenks went to higher headquarters and said : | said | {
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`` For three days now a German reconnaissance plane has been over the city taking pictures. | been | {
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`` For three days now a German reconnaissance plane has been over the city taking pictures. | taking | {
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They 're just waiting for the proper time to come over here and dump this place into the Adriatic ''. | waiting | {
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"wait before acting"
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"wait%2:42:01::"
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They 're just waiting for the proper time to come over here and dump this place into the Adriatic ''. | come | {
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"come%2:38:00::"
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