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The Dreadful Silence. But it would be broken again & again. Bombers were over the Münster-TAKE COVER . . . bombers were crossing the Reich frontier . . . enemy planes approaching at low altitude-beware of machine-gun attacks. In areas where the bombers were striking, radio stations would go off the air...
Refuge. The Parnikovs, a couple of papier-mâché old guard aristocrats, took her in. They turned against her when she visited their daughter Lilian, a long-nosed, ugly, attractive whore who lived with a killer for the secret police. "He is dreadful," said the old people. "He...
In 1874 he turned up in the city of Itabaiana. Now he had disciples. They built a temple. Coming into a town, they would hang an image of Christ on a tree, kneel in prayer, lift the image aloft and triumphantly enter the town to the chorus of litanies. Antonio...
Berlin caught another dreadful week. Four nights the heavy bombers of the R.A.F. visited the doomed city. Lowest tonnage in a single night, 1,210; highest, 2,400. Weather and artful feinting by the raiders thwarted the defenses; British losses were low.
Italy. Said the Eighth Army's General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery: "We've finally got what we wanted after hard fighting in dreadful weather." What the Eighth's men had won: a foothold on the Rome side of the Sangro River, one of the Germans' toughest...