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He interlards these with sizzling passages like this one from The Stars Look Down: "Linked together, they moved to the foremost pew, cushioned and wide as any bed . . . her lips were moist with desire. The rain drummed upon the roof and the darkness of the church reddened and enclosed them...
His argument: "Once Hitler's opponents can match plane for plane and the various other weapons that are used under cover of darkness, Hitler's inferior and lightly pigmented night operators will be no match for the sharpshooting British and other more deeply pigmented peoples." Snorted the New...
Over the little town of Eastman, Ga. lay the dead pall of fear and hatred that comes over Southern towns when everybody knows what is going to happen. In the town square, hard-eyed, determined men came together, waiting for darkness. There was going to be a lynching.
¶ In most planes, control handles and numerals on instruments are covered with radium paint for visibility in darkness. "This radium paint gives off emanations which are absorbed by the body and, in large enough doses, can cause radium poisoning." Such poisoning, say the doctors, is unlikely. "There is some...
But as soon as it was dark the Germans began rocket-signaling. The sky was striped with blue, green, red and yellow rockets, each conveying a message: Here we need men. . . . Send ammunition. . . . We must have artillery. . . . Bring food. In the darkness supply troops sneaked up to carry out the...