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...amazing that the butts of all those stupid Polish jokes could make the whole world hold its breath? Some would have said that the Poles possessed suicidal courage and had no hope of succeeding. But they have succeeded by proving to men and women everywhere that no force on earth or in hell can take away a man's will...
...Ludendorff launched the greatest military assault in history (62 divisions, more than 600,000 men, a 6,000-gun artillery barrage), and after years of stalemate blew a wedge, at places 100 miles wide and 40 miles deep, in Allied lines. By early summer, Germany seemed within a hot breath of taking Paris, driving the British army into the sea and winning the war. Then the Americans, as Toland puts it, finally got a chance to "show the world that [they] could fight as well as talk," and the counterattacks began. The overextended German army collapsed. In November the Kaiser...
...story -- without holding or toking on a Lucky Strike, has given up smoking. "It's a whole other world for me. I just didn't feel good, I felt like I was caving in inside. I couldn't walk two blocks without coughing and wheezing and out of breath, so I said, "What am I doing killing myself?' I don't want to live hard, die young and have a beautiful corpse. I really...
...massed crowd of sympathizers outside the gate, and lifted a microphone to his mouth. This time, however, instead of a rousing exhortation to militancy, his message was a somber admonition: to curtail the spread of further strikes across his nation and give the government the necessary breath a while. "It is not good to have Poland terrorized," the strike leader, Lech Walesa, told the crowd. "The people must have food. Poland can only last for a few more days under these conditions." Then, with a more characteristic tone of defiance, he added, "If we don't get results...
...over Harvard and Radcliffe, but they are partially human. Skippable, unless you fear that you may never get that close to them again. Your fears may be justified. The Fogg is a nice place to stroll and muse, too. The rest of you will have to wait with baited breath till tomorrow...