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Come, come. "It took a knock. I said 'Dear me, this can't go on. It's being swallowed up in the battle.' I managed to form the corps again. Once more pressure was such that it began to disappear in a defensive battle...
...noon, picking his way through a litter of broken dishes, George stopped to eat a jar of caviar. "Please go," said the restaurant owner. "If you could just go away? Quietly? Just disappear, so to speak? I give you five dollars...
Beleaguered Budapest was already nearly two-thirds surrounded by the plodding, artillery-heavy Red Army. But into the city at that late hour the Germans poured several SS divisions, reportedly some others from the Italian front. Their orders: fight in every room of every house-Budapest must disappear from the face of the earth before Russian troops may have it. Ruling the ancient city's defenders was one of the grimmest, most corrupt of Nazis: Palestine-born, Hebrew-speaking SS Obergruppenführer Karl Eichmann, who had made an enormous racket out of Hungary's anti-Semitic campaign...
Bluntly Wickard told the Northwest farmers that 1) the world market for high-priced U.S. wheat would disappear at war's end, 2) he is against Government subsidies for wheat exports. Then Wickard unwrapped his plan. He would guarantee parity prices only for wheat needed for home consumption. Farmers would have to sell any surplus wheat in the world market, at whatever price they could...
...Gandhi proposed a modest program: "I'll be really satisfied if Ahmadabad fulfills my cherished dream by achieving the following things: untouchability must be rooted out. Hindus and Moslems should live as brothers. Men & women should be leading a regulated life. Disparity between rich and poor should disappear. Drink, evil and also gambling should be abolished. People should be habitual khadi [homespun cotton cloth] wearers. People should observe ideal cleansing mentally and bodily. Nobody should starve in Ahmadabad. Carry out as much as you can of the above. What else? You have my blessing...