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Somewhere along the routine line, something had happened to Wedemeyer. He began to study economics, foreign affairs, history and the new concept of air power. A mind that can be as cold and rigorous as a steel trap had found something to bite on. In 1936, Wedemeyer (now a captain after 15 years as lieutenant) graduated from the General Staff School at Leavenworth with such high honors that he was chosen to attend the German General Staff School, Berlin's famed Kriegsakademie...
Fresh-water fishermen believe in a closed season at spawning time because they want to preserve the fish and because they think that fish bite better if they have an annual vacation. This year five Tennessee Valley states, setting out to disprove the old theory, have abolished a closed season in TVA's vast reservoirs...
...Werewolf teeth bite the enemy...
...said he was frightened of dogs, I said: 'You're quite right. They often bite people.' To the woman who said she was frightened of wasps, I said: 'Who isn't? They sting people...
...soap ("Cold water, good rough soap and a bluntish blade, and you know you've 'ad a shave"). He calls Sergeant Hands "Ramon Novarro," because Hands uses brushless shaving cream and washes in a bucket. Fatty Teedale is "the only man in the Brigade of Guards who . . . bites his toenails" ("It makes my blood run cold to hear him"), and keeps the most promising growth for "a long bite . . . after Church Parade." Slugging Private Alison dreams of a hand-to-hand fight-to-the-death between Churchill and Hitler ("Old Winnie breathes 'eavy, but 'itler breathes...