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...Impatience at the prospect of fighting a succession of small "brush fires," with an impulse to drop the atom bomb on Moscow. "Let's end it before it starts" was a phrase frequently heard...
...automobile begins on the drawing board, progresses through the ordering of materials and dies before assembly lines can be set up, so mobilization had to proceed by degrees. First, military needs had to be restudied and clearly stated-what Korea needed, what was necessary to put out brush fires in other places, what would be required in case of all-out war; then orders had to go out to industry to provide the arms and equipment for men called up. Then would come the scurry for materials, the setting up of production lines. Some of these steps had been anticipated...
...hills overlooking the lordly Han River. The Japanese built wide avenues and modern buildings in Seoul's westernized center, but most of the city's side streets are unpaved alleys bordered by drab wooden shops. Even in the city's center men in western business suits brush elbows with ragged coolies...
...dropped to the ties. An instant later, the mail coach lurched off the rails, derailing the Capitan's passenger coaches behind it. Car 2918, El Capitan's middle coach, hurtled off the tracks and sideswiped the Chiefs locomotive, knocking it off the rails into the light brush along the right of way; the Chief's passenger cars jolted, but stayed on the track...
...spends his mornings working in his North Side studio, his afternoons prowling the Chicago streets in search of subjects. Setting up his easel on sidewalks or in alleyways, he is used to the curious onlookers that gather, once disposed of a bothersome crowd by filling a big brush with water, swinging it casually over his shoulder to spatter the kibitzers. On cold winter jaunts he protects his hands from the bitter Lake Michigan wind by wearing woolen socks on them while painting...