Unit 5: Selection Vocabulary 3

Five hundred Japanese families lived there then, and FBI deputies had been questioning everyone, ransacking houses for anything that could conceivably be used for signaling planes or ships or that indicated loyalty to the Emperor.

To the FBI every radio owner was a potential saboteur.

The confiscators were often deputies sworn in hastily during the turbulent days right after Pearl Harbor, and these men seemed to be acting out the general panic, seeing sinister possibilities in the most ordinary household items.

But I think he knew it was futile to hide out or resist.

Then word came that he had been taken into custody and shipped out.

And it is with a profound sense of humility that I accept the honor—the highest there is—that you have chosen to bestow upon me.

A young Jewish boy discovered the Kingdom of Night. I remember his bewilderment, I remember his anguish.

Wherever men or women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must—at that moment—become the center of the universe...

One person—a Raoul Wallenberg, an Albert Schweitzer, Martin Luther King, Jr.—one person of integrity, can make a difference, a difference of life and death.

As long as one child is hungry, our life will be filled with anguish and shame.

The war had made Mahmoud nervous. Twitchy. Paranoid.

Nobody knew a wave of revolutions would sweep through the Middle East, top­pling governments and overthrowing dictators and start­ing civil wars.

Mahmoud and Waleed turned down a different rubble -strewn alley than the day before and stopped dead.

Incidents like this were common in Aleppo lately. It was getting harder and harder to get food in the city.

Mahmoud had bristled. The differences between Sunnis and Shiites was an excuse. These boys had just wanted to beat someone up.