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...Toms and 240-mm. howitzers pumped shells up the hill. The mountain seemed to jump and quiver, like a great bear twitching in sleep. Observers counted 200 men, some allegedly in uniform, scurrying out of the devastated monastery. As the next-to-last wave of 20 Marauders dropped a cluster smack on the abbey, an American soldier yelled: "Touchdown...
...beet-seed cluster may have as many as six seed germs, and plants grow so close together that the only practical thinning method is with the fingers or with short-handled hoes. Reducing the seed clusters to single seeds had baffled many previous experimenters. Plant breeding had failed. Bainer tried grinding the clusters, but that did not work. Then one day a cluster accidentally slipped under a steel bar. The bar's pressure cracked open both the cluster and Bainer's problem...
Upshot was a machine with a grinding wheel that pushes beet-seed clusters against a "shearing bar." This breaks up the cluster at its natural cell divisions. The cracked-off single seeds, when planted, need no thinning...
...awards', including 14 to Marines, one to a Coast Guardsman, against the Army's 32). > Eight out of nine Army awards were D.F.C.s and Air Medals for flyers. Regardless of any heroism or merit involved, an Air Medal is usually awarded for five combat flights; an oakleaf cluster for each additional five. Result: 40,585 Air Medals, plus 58,596 clusters, accounted for four-fifths of the Army tinsel factory output...
...dismal implication was unstressed by Sir Charles's report: the thickest cluster of Italian art and architectural treasures is still north of the battle line; as the fighting moves north, the destruction will inevitably be greater...