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...down one after the other. An incendiary bomb smacks onto our roof blinding for a moment and splashing melted metal and flame, but with the aid of a rake it is dislodged and flicked off into the garden to burn itself out; had it been left it would have burnt its way through roof and floor to the basement...
...adventurers; but most of all, like Marshal Pétain, he believes France was betrayed by the British. Against George VI and on behalf of France he quotes passionately the charges in the U.S. Declaration of Independence hurled against George III: "He has plundered our Seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our Towns, and destroyed the Lives of our People. . . . He has excited domestic Insurrections amongst...
...have is that, so far as we could tell, she did not suffer much. My sister came off worse than any of us. She was thrown against the fire and could not move until they got her out after two or three hours. Both legs were very badly burnt; one had to be amputated, but they are trying to save the other. The doctor told Dad it was getting on slowly but as the bone was burnt in one place, it would be a very long job. They are now talking of a skin-graft, so it sounds as though...
...port to load lubricating oil. Mr. Jobbins hit the ceiling. He failed to see why, when the East Coast was facing a shortage of petroleum products-because oil-carrying tankers had been transferred to the British-an Axis power should be allowed to make the shortage shorter. He burnt up the wires to the President, to Harold Ickes, Oil Coordinator, to every responsible person he could think...
...finally died in a madhouse in 1874. Meanwhile, Prairie Farmer prospered in other hands. When the Chicago Fire of 1871 destroyed its office and equipment, the editors somehow got out a two-page edition, the first paper sent out of Chicago after the fire, included a map of the burnt-out district, pictures of the ruins...