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How to use pows in a sentence

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I wrote the amount on each ang pow. When Chinese New Year came, just after the Alzheimer's diagnosis, I thought all Ma could do was hand out the ang pows.
Stowed below deck with 1,600 other PoWs, he was forced to exist in a space so cramped they had to lie down to sleep in relays.
He was left for dead in a hut known by the PoWs as the death house, but fellow prisoners nursed him to health.
Kerry publicly supported Hanoi's position to use our POWs as a bargaining chip in negotiations for a peace agreement.
Matters addressed include treatment of POWs and endangerment of civilians.
All in all, approximately 13,000 allied POWs and 90,000 Asian laborers perished while working on the railway.
On the fourth attempt he evaded recapture and, along with a group of Special Forces, took part in operations behind enemy lines and also helped fellow POWs escape.
Soon the dazed POWs heard strange voices barking commands in English.
By contrast, the era of American POWs offers photos of Christmas parties and volleyball in the courtyard.
During 1946, up to one fifth of all farm work in Britain was being done by German POWs, and they were also employed on road works and building sites.
The bridge is a part of the Thai-Burma railway, built by Allied PoWs and well as unwilling local Thais, Malays and Burmese, under the instructions of their Japanese masters.
The Hindustani POWs in Turkey were coaxed to join this army.
They add that POWs are supposed to be released when hostilities end.
For the families of those missing it is an important day in which the service and sacrifices of POWs and MIAs are acknowledged and remembered.
Under this view, the statements by German POWs that the raid was fully expected are explained as being propaganda.
Most Afrika Korps POWs were transported to the United States and held in Camp Shelby in Mississippi and other POW camps until the end of the war.
The card index led to the identification of about 2 million POWs and the ability to contact their families.
After that, about 56,000 of the 409,000 POWs died in prisons during the war, accounting for nearly 10 percent of the conflict's fatalities.
The battle was followed by the summary execution of more than 300 Allied PoWs in the Laha massacre.
However, nations vary in their dedication to following these laws, and historically the treatment of POWs has varied greatly.
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Some American POWs refused to meet with Fonda while she was in Vietnam, and they were then tortured in an attempt to coerce them into meeting with her.
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