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Trees gnarled by accident most often bend from their bases. But genuine Indian markers show "acute or right-angled bend in their main trunks, usually from two to five feet above their bases. Rising vertically from the bent trunks are one or more . . . secondary trunks...
...hundred yards up the road a Blue gun crew bunched about a 37-mm. antitank gun (which, for want of a better piece, counted as effective in these maneuvers). As Kidwell disappeared around the bend they resighted their gun to point at the woods across the road. The trouble would probably come from there. It did, within two minutes, heralded by the splintering crash of fences, the shrieking whine of green trees torn apart...
...they use a lot of aluminum (6 sq. ft. of sheet per set), as well as zinc, copper, lead, other critical materials. When OPM made up its priorities list, radios were sandwiched "between hair tonic and toothpaste," with a B-7 rating. OPM figured that since U.S. citizens already bend an ear to 53,000,000 receiving sets, more would be a luxury...
...Ichang neared, the bag of rice was shifted again to a duck-bottomed little junk. Five miles and one river bend above Ichang (the high-water mark of Japanese penetration) the junk ran onto the bank, and the bag of rice was loaded on a coolie's back. The coolie, who carried the rice up a wire-tangled gully toward Divisional H.Q., could hear the boom of artillery. But it was not Chinese artillery...
...later years Belle ran a bandit headquarters at a place she called Younger's Bend, in Indian territory. Near there, in 1889, someone fired a load of buckshot into her back while she was riding. She was buried with her jewels and one of her precious pistols, which were afterward stolen by grave robbers...